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Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving IoT

The proliferation of IoT devices generates enormous volumes of sensitive data at the network edge. This project develops communication-efficient and privacy-preserving federated learning protocols that allow IoT devices to collaboratively train models without centralizing data, addressing both privacy regulations and bandwidth constraints inherent to IoT deployments.

Research Objectives

  • Minimize communication overhead in federated rounds across heterogeneous IoT hardware
  • Incorporate differential privacy guarantees while preserving model utility
  • Handle statistical heterogeneity (non-IID data) across geographically distributed IoT nodes
  • Design hierarchical aggregation strategies for multi-tier IoT network topologies

Methods & Techniques

  • Differential privacy mechanisms (Gaussian and Laplace noise injection)
  • Gradient compression and sparsification for bandwidth efficiency
  • Asynchronous federated optimization for slow or intermittent IoT clients
  • Secure aggregation protocols to prevent model inversion attacks

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