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In this paper, we propose a robust aggregation method for federated learning (FL) that can effectively tackle malicious Byzantine attacks. At each user, model parameter is firstly updated by multiple steps, which is adjustable over…

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The mobile edge computing (MEC) has been introduced for providing computing capabilities at the edge of networks to improve the latency performance of wireless networks. In this paper, we provide the novel framework for MEC-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chanwon Park , Jemin Lee

Federated learning is a distributed training framework vulnerable to Byzantine attacks, particularly when over 50% of clients are malicious or when datasets are highly non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID). Additionally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Haocheng Jiang , Hua Shen , Jixin Zhang , Willy Susilo , Mingwu Zhang

Modern multi-core processors share cache resources for maximum cache utilization and performance gains. However, this leaves the cache vulnerable to side-channel attacks, where timing differences in shared cache behavior are exploited to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Ghada Dessouky , Tommaso Frassetto , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Modern distributed systems face growing security threats, as attackers continuously enhance their skills and vulnerabilities span across the entire system stack, from hardware to the application layer. In the system design phase, fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Silvia Bonomi , Giovanni Farina , Roy Friedman , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Sebastien Tixeuil

Inherent client drifts caused by data heterogeneity, as well as vulnerability to Byzantine attacks within the system, hinder effective model training and convergence in federated learning (FL). This paper presents two new frameworks, named…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingnan Xiao , Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

Owing to data-intensive large-scale applications, distributed computation systems have gained significant recent interest, due to their ability of running such tasks over a large number of commodity nodes in a time efficient manner. One of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon

Internet of Things and its applications are becoming commonplace with more devices, but always at risk of network security. It is therefore crucial for an IoT network design to identify attackers accurately, quickly and promptly. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Truong Thu Huong , Ta Phuong Bac , Dao M. Long , Bui D. Thang , Nguyen T. Binh , Tran D. Luong , Tran Kim Phuc

Edge computing is the practice of placing computing resources at the edges of the Internet in close proximity to devices and information sources. This, much like a cache on a CPU, increases bandwidth and reduces latency for applications but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Paul Wood , Heng Zhang , Muhammad-Bilal Siddiqui , Saurabh Bagchi

From the perspective of hard decision fusion, we investigate Byzantine attacks in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-enhanced and decode-and-forward relay-assisted Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) for mobile Cognitive Radio Networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Gaoyuan Zhang , Gaolei Song , Boyuan Li , Zijian Li , Baofeng Ji , Ruijuan Zheng , Guoqiang Zheng , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we consider the Byzantine-robust stochastic optimization problem defined over decentralized static and time-varying networks, where the agents collaboratively minimize the summation of expectations of stochastic local cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Qing Ling

Training modern neural networks or models typically requires averaging over a sample of high-dimensional vectors. Poisoning attacks can skew or bias the average vectors used to train the model, forcing the model to learn specific patterns…

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Edge computing processes data near its source, reducing latency and enhancing security compared to traditional cloud computing while providing its benefits. This paper explores edge computing for migrating an existing safety-critical…

The advent of distributed computing systems will offer great flexibility for application workloads, while also imposing more attention to security, where the future advent and adoption of quantum technology can introduce new security…

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A method for optimizing encryption mechanism and resource allocation based on edge computing environment is proposed. A local differential privacy algorithm based on a histogram algorithm is used to protect user information during task…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ruan Yanjiao

In cloud-edge-device (CED) collaborative query (CQ) processing, by leveraging CED collaboration, the advantages of both cloud computing and edge resources can be fully integrated. However, it is difficult to implement collaborative…

The problem of designing distributed optimization algorithms that are resilient to Byzantine adversaries has received significant attention. For the Byzantine-resilient distributed optimization problem, the goal is to (approximately)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

Coded distributed computing (CDC) introduced by Li et al. in 2015 offers an efficient approach to trade computing power to reduce the communication load in general distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce. For the more general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative training without centralized servers but remains vulnerable to Byzantine attacks. Existing Byzantine-robust defenses are predicated on exchanging full,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Murtaza Rangwala , Farag Azzedin , Richard O. Sinnott , Rajkumar Buyya

Federated Learning (FL) aims to train a collaborative model while preserving data privacy. However, the distributed nature of this approach still raises privacy and security issues, such as the exposure of sensitive data due to inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adda Akram Bendoukha , Aymen Boudguiga , Nesrine Kaaniche , Renaud Sirdey , Didem Demirag , Sébastien Gambs