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Federated learning (FL) is a promising way to allow multiple data owners (clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without compromising data privacy. Yet, existing FL solutions usually rely on a centralized aggregator for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Nanqing Dong , Jiahao Sun , Zhipeng Wang , Shuoying Zhang , Shuhao Zheng

Federated learning (FL), thanks in part to the emergence of the edge computing paradigm, is expected to enable true real-time applications in production environments. However, its original dependence on a central server for orchestration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Francesc Wilhelmi , Elia Guerra , Paolo Dini

Cloud-edge-device hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has been recently proposed to achieve communication-efficient and privacy-preserving distributed learning. However, there exist several critical challenges, such as the single point of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhilin Wang , Qin Hu , Minghui Xu , Zeihui Xiong

Federated learning has been widely studied and applied to various scenarios. In mobile computing scenarios, federated learning protects users from exposing their private data, while cooperatively training the global model for a variety of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yuzheng Li , Chuan Chen , Nan Liu , Huawei Huang , Zibin Zheng , Qiang Yan

Federated Learning (FL) has gained widespread popularity in recent years due to the fast booming of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence along with emerging security and privacy threats. FL enables efficient model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ervin Moore , Ahmed Imteaj , Shabnam Rezapour , M. Hadi Amini

In this paper, we study a new latency optimization problem for blockchain-based federated learning (BFL) in multi-server edge computing. In this system model, distributed mobile devices (MDs) communicate with a set of edge servers (ESs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Dinh C. Nguyen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , David J. Love , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Christopher G. Brinton

Energy shortfall and electricity load shedding are the main problems for developing countries. The main causes are lack of management in the energy sector and the use of non-renewable energy sources. The improved energy management and use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Azeen Ahmed Hayat

Federated Learning (FL) as a promising distributed machine learning paradigm has been widely adopted in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) applications. However, the efficiency and inference capability of FL is seriously limited due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zeke Xia , Ming Hu , Dengke Yan , Xiaofei Xie , Tianlin Li , Anran Li , Junlong Zhou , Mingsong Chen

Blockchain-enabled federated learning (BCFL) addresses fundamental challenges of trust, privacy, and coordination in collaborative AI systems. This chapter provides comprehensive architectural analysis of BCFL systems through a systematic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Murtaza Rangwala , KR Venugopal , Rajkumar Buyya

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for building Trustworthy AI systems by enabling privacy-preserving, decentralized model training. However, FL is highly susceptible to adversarial attacks that compromise model integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mario García-Márquez , Nuria Rodríguez-Barroso , M. Victoria Luzón , Francisco Herrera

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that addresses privacy and data transfer costs by computing data at the source. It's particularly popular for Edge and IoT applications where the aggregator server of FL is in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ahmad Faraz Khan , Yuze Li , Xinran Wang , Sabaat Haroon , Haider Ali , Yue Cheng , Ali R. Butt , Ali Anwar

Federated learning is one of the most appealing alternatives to the standard centralized learning paradigm, allowing a heterogeneous set of devices to train a machine learning model without sharing their raw data. However, it requires a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Elia Guerra , Francesc Wilhelmi , Marco Miozzo , Paolo Dini

Federated learning (FL) based on the centralized design faces both challenges regarding the trust issue and a single point of failure. To alleviate these issues, blockchain-aided decentralized FL (BDFL) introduces the decentralized network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jun Li , Weiwei Zhang , Kang Wei , Guangji Chen , Feng Shu , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

This paper proposes Federated Learning (FL) based smart healthcare system where Medical Centers (MCs) train the local model using the data collected from patients and send the model weights to the miners in a blockchain-based robust…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Moirangthem Biken Singh , Ajay Pratap

Despite the great potential of Federated Learning (FL) in large-scale distributed learning, the current system is still subject to several privacy issues due to the fact that local models trained by clients are exposed to the central…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Truc Nguyen , Phuc Thai , Tre' R. Jeter , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Home appliance manufacturers strive to obtain feedback from users to improve their products and services to build a smart home system. To help manufacturers develop a smart home system, we design a federated learning (FL) system leveraging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yang Zhao , Jun Zhao , Linshan Jiang , Rui Tan , Dusit Niyato , Zengxiang Li , Lingjuan Lyu , Yingbo Liu

The blockchain technology has been extensively studied to enable distributed and tamper-proof data processing in federated learning (FL). Most existing blockchain assisted FL (BFL) frameworks have employed a third-party blockchain network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xiumei Deng , Jun Li , Chuan Ma , Kang Wei , Long Shi , Ming Ding , Wen Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Machine learning models offer the capability to forecast future energy production or consumption and infer essential unknown variables from existing data. However, legal and policy constraints within specific energy sectors render the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Lei Xu , Yulong Chen , Yuntian Chen , Longfeng Nie , Xuetao Wei , Liang Xue , Dongxiao Zhang

Due to the distributed characteristics of Federated Learning (FL), the vulnerability of global model and coordination of devices are the main obstacle. As a promising solution of decentralization, scalability and security, leveraging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Mingrui Cao , Long Zhang , Bin Cao

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many devices collaboratively train a machine learning model while keeping the training data decentralized. In most of the current training schemes the central model is refined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tao Lin , Lingjing Kong , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi