Security of federated learning for cloud‐edge intelligence collaborative computing

Abstract

Federated Learning (FL) is one of the key technologies to solve privacy protection for cloud-edge intelligent collaborative computing, and its security and privacy issues have attracted extensive attention from academia and industry. FL is a distributed privacy protection framework. Multiple edged nodes or servers jointly train a machine learning model by sharing model parameters without exchanging local data. However, there are still many security risks and privacy threats in FL in edge-cloud collaborative computing. In this paper, we mainly discuss the security and privacy challenges on FL in collaborative computing at the edge. First, we introduce the principle, classification, and threat model of FL in edge-cloud collaboration, which helps understand the challenges faced by edge-cloud collaborative computing. Second, privacy leakage attacks and poisoning attacks launched by adversaries or honest but curious actors are summarized and compared. Then, the problems existing on the attack method are summarized and analyzed. Finally, the future development direction of FL in the field of edge-cloud collaborative computing is further discussed.