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Secure Decentralized Aggregation to Prevent Membership Privacy Leakage in Edge-Based Federated Learning
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng. Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 11(3):3105-3119 Jun, 2024
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computational modeling
Privacy
Data models
Training
Blockchains
Cryptography
Servers
Federated learning
privacy preservation
decentralized aggregation
consortium blockchain
Language
ISSN
2327-4697
2334-329X
Abstract
Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning approach that enables multiple users to share their local models for the aggregation of a global model, protecting data privacy by avoiding the sharing of raw data. However, frequent parameter sharing between users and the aggregator can incur high risk of membership privacy leakage. In this paper, we propose LiPFed, a computationally lightweight privacy preserving FL scheme using secure decentralized aggregation for edge networks. Under this scheme, we ensure privacy preservation on the aggregation side, and promote lightweight computation on the user side. By incorporating blockchain and additive secret sharing algorithm, we effectively protect the membership privacy of both local models and global models. Furthermore, the secure decentralized aggregation mechanism safeguards against potential compromises of the aggregator. Meanwhile, smart contract is introduced to identify malicious models uploaded by edge nodes and return trustworthy global models to users. Rigorous security analysis shows the effectiveness of this scheme in privacy preservation. Extensive experiments verify that LiPFed outperforms the state-of-the-art schemes in terms of training efficiency, model accuracy, and privacy preservation.