• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1223-1237
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• 2024

Autonomous vehicles use onboard sensors to sense the surrounding environment. In complex autonomous driving scenarios, the detection and recognition capabilities are constrained, which may result in serious accidents. An efficient way to enhance the detection and recognition capabilities is establishing collaborations with the neighbor vehicles. However, the collaborations introduce additional challenges in terms of the data heterogeneity, communication cost, and data privacy. In this paper, a novel personalized federated learning framework is proposed for addressing the challenges and enabling efficient collaborations in autonomous driving environment. For obtaining a global model, vehicles perform local training and transmit logits to a central unit instead of the entire model, and thus the communication cost is minimized, and the data privacy is protected. Then, the inference similarity is derived for capturing the characteristics of data heterogeneity. The vehicles are divided into clusters based on the inference similarity and a weighted aggregation is performed within a cluster. Finally, the vehicles download the corresponding aggregated global model and train a personalized model which is personalized for the cluster that has similar data distribution, so that accuracy is not affected by heterogeneous data. Experimental results demonstrate significant advantages of our proposed method in improving the efficiency of collaborative perception and reducing communication cost.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1462-1477
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• 2024

With the evolving complexity of connected vehicle features, the volume and diversity of data generated during driving continue to escalate. Enabling data sharing among interconnected vehicles holds promise for improving users' driving experiences and alleviating traffic congestion. Yet, the unintentional disclosure of users' private information through data sharing poses a risk, potentially compromising the interests of vehicle users and, in certain cases, endangering driving safety. Federated learning (FL) is a newly emerged distributed machine learning paradigm, which is expected to play a prominent role for privacy-preserving learning in autonomous vehicles. While FL holds significant potential to enhance the architecture of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), the dynamic mobility of vehicles poses a considerable challenge to integrating FL with vehicular networks. In this paper, a novel clustered FL framework is proposed which is efficient for reducing communication and protecting data privacy. By assessing the similarity among feature vectors, vehicles are categorized into distinct clusters. An optimal vehicle is elected as the cluster head, which enhances the efficiency of personalized data processing and model training while reducing communication overhead. Simultaneously, the Local Differential Privacy (LDP) mechanism is incorporated during local training to safeguard vehicle privacy. The simulation results obtained from the 20newsgroups dataset and the MNIST dataset validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, indicating that the proposed scheme can ensure data privacy effectively while reducing communication overhead.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.826-842
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• 2024

As 5G and AI continue to develop, there has been a significant surge in the healthcare industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed immense challenges to the global health system. This study proposes an FL-supported edge computing model based on federated learning (FL) for predicting clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients during hospitalization. The model aims to address the challenges posed by the pandemic, such as the need for sophisticated predictive models, privacy concerns, and the non-IID nature of COVID-19 data. The model utilizes the FATE framework, known for its privacy-preserving technologies, to enhance predictive precision while ensuring data privacy and effectively managing data heterogeneity. The model's ability to generalize across diverse datasets and its adaptability in real-world clinical settings are highlighted by the use of SHAP values, which streamline the training process by identifying influential features, thus reducing computational overhead without compromising predictive precision. The study demonstrates that the proposed model achieves comparable precision to specific machine learning models when dataset sizes are identical and surpasses traditional models when larger training data volumes are employed. The model's performance is further improved when trained on datasets from diverse nodes, leading to superior generalization and overall performance, especially in scenarios with insufficient node features. The integration of FL with edge computing contributes significantly to the reliable prediction of COVID-19 patient outcomes with greater privacy. The research contributes to healthcare technology by providing a practical solution for early intervention and personalized treatment plans, leading to improved patient outcomes and efficient resource allocation during public health crises.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2024년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.749-752
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• 2024

연합학습은 클라이언트가 중앙 서버에 원본 데이터를 주지 않고도 학습할 수 있도록 설계된 분산된 머신러닝 방법이다. 그러나 클라이언트와 중앙 서버 사이에 모델 업데이트 정보를 공유한다는 점에서 여전히 추론 공격(Inference Attack)과 오염 공격(Poisoning Attack)의 위험에 노출되어 있다. 이러한 공격을 방어하기 위해 연합학습에 차분프라이버시(Differential Privacy)를 적용하는 방안이 연구되고 있다. 차분 프라이버시는 데이터에 노이즈를 추가하여 민감한 정보를 보호하면서도 유의미한 통계적 정보 쿼리는 공유할 수 있도록 하는 기법으로, 노이즈를 추가하는 위치에 따라 전역적 차분프라이버시(Global Differential Privacy)와 국소적 차분 프라이버시(Local Differential Privacy)로 나뉜다. 이에 본 논문에서는 차분 프라이버시를 적용한 연합학습의 최신 연구 동향을 전역적 차분 프라이버시를 적용한 방향과 국소적 차분 프라이버시를 적용한 방향으로 나누어 검토한다. 또한 이를 세분화하여 차분 프라이버시를 발전시킨 방식인 적응형 차분 프라이버시(Adaptive Differential Privacy)와 개인화된 차분 프라이버시(Personalized Differential Privacy)를 응용하여 연합학습에 적용한 방식들에 대하여 특징과 장점 및 한계점을 분석하고 향후 연구방향을 제안한다.