The rapid advancement of the Internet of Things(IoT)has transformed edge devices from simple data collectors into intelligent units capable of local processing and collaborative learning.However,the vast amounts of se...The rapid advancement of the Internet of Things(IoT)has transformed edge devices from simple data collectors into intelligent units capable of local processing and collaborative learning.However,the vast amounts of sensitive data generated by these devices face severe constraints from“data silos”and risks of privacy breaches.Federated learning(FL),as a distributed collaborative paradigm that avoids sharing raw data,holds great promise in the IoT domain.Nevertheless,it remains vulnerable to gradient leakage threats.While traditional differential privacy(DP)techniques mitigate privacy risks,they often come at the cost of significantly reduced model performance—a limitation particularly pronounced in resource-constrained IoT environments characterised by non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)data distribution.To bridge the gap between privacy preservation and high performance on heterogeneous data,this paper proposes a novel personalized federated learning(PFL)method,FedGLP-ADP.This method leverages historical gradient information to provide a more detailed partitioning of parameters,aiming to prevent personalized knowledge from being affected by noise as much as possible,thereby reducing model degradation.Building on this,we propose an adaptive DP mechanism that optimizes both the clipping and noising steps to minimize the impact of noise on global knowledge.Experimental results show that FedGLP-ADP exhibits superior performance compared to other representative methods under different privacy levels and non-IID degrees.展开更多
The generation of synthetic trajectories has become essential in various fields for analyzing complex movement patterns.However,the use of real-world trajectory data poses significant privacy risks,such as location re...The generation of synthetic trajectories has become essential in various fields for analyzing complex movement patterns.However,the use of real-world trajectory data poses significant privacy risks,such as location reidentification and correlation attacks.To address these challenges,privacy-preserving trajectory generation methods are critical for applications relying on sensitive location data.This paper introduces DPIL-Traj,an advanced framework designed to generate synthetic trajectories while achieving a superior balance between data utility and privacy preservation.Firstly,the framework incorporates Differential Privacy Clustering,which anonymizes trajectory data by applying differential privacy techniques that add noise,ensuring the protection of sensitive user information.Secondly,Imitation Learning is used to replicate decision-making behaviors observed in real-world trajectories.By learning from expert trajectories,this component generates synthetic data that closely mimics real-world decision-making processes while optimizing the quality of the generated trajectories.Finally,Markov-based Trajectory Generation is employed to capture and maintain the inherent temporal dynamics of movement patterns.Extensive experiments conducted on the GeoLife trajectory dataset show that DPIL-Traj improves utility performance by an average of 19.85%,and in terms of privacy performance by an average of 12.51%,compared to state-of-the-art approaches.Ablation studies further reveal that DP clustering effectively safeguards privacy,imitation learning enhances utility under noise,and the Markov module strengthens temporal coherence.展开更多
With the increasing complexity of malware attack techniques,traditional detection methods face significant challenges,such as privacy preservation,data heterogeneity,and lacking category information.To address these i...With the increasing complexity of malware attack techniques,traditional detection methods face significant challenges,such as privacy preservation,data heterogeneity,and lacking category information.To address these issues,we propose Federated Dynamic Prototype Learning(FedDPL)for malware classification by integrating Federated Learning with a specifically designed K-means.Under the Federated Learning framework,model training occurs locally without data sharing,effectively protecting user data privacy and preventing the leakage of sensitive information.Furthermore,to tackle the challenges of data heterogeneity and the lack of category information,FedDPL introduces a dynamic prototype learning mechanism,which adaptively adjusts the clustering prototypes in terms of position and number.Thus,the dependency on predefined category numbers in typical K-means and its variants can be significantly reduced,resulting in improved clustering performance.Theoretically,it provides a more accurate detection of malicious behavior.Experimental results confirm that FedDPL excels in handling malware classification tasks,demonstrating superior accuracy,robustness,and privacy protection.展开更多
The advent of 6G networks is poised to drive a new era of intelligent,privacy-preserving distributed learning by leveraging advanced communication and AI-driven edge intelligence.Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a...The advent of 6G networks is poised to drive a new era of intelligent,privacy-preserving distributed learning by leveraging advanced communication and AI-driven edge intelligence.Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable collaborative model training without exposing raw data.However,its deployment in 6G networks faces significant obstacles,including vulnerabilities to inference attacks,the complexities of heterogeneous and dynamic network environments,and the inherent trade-off between privacy protection and model performance.In response to these challenges,we introduce DP-Fed6G,a novel FL framework that integrates differential privacy(DP)to fortify data security while ensuring high-quality learning outcomes.Specifically,DPFed6G employs an adaptive noise injection strategy that dynamically adjusts privacy protection levels based on real-time 6G network conditions and device heterogeneity,ensuring robust data security while maximizing model performance and optimizing the trade-off between privacy and utility.Extensive experiments on three real-world healthcare datasets demonstrate that DP-Fed6G consistently outperforms existing baselines(DP-Fed SGD and DPFed Avg),achieving up to 10.3%higher test accuracy under the same privacy budget.The proposed framework thus provides a practical solution for secure and privacy-preserving AI in 6G,supporting intelligent decisionmaking in privacy-sensitive applications.展开更多
Dear Editor,This letter addresses the critical challenge of preserving privacy in graph learning without compromising on data utility.Differential privacy(DP)is emerging as an effective method for privacy-preserving g...Dear Editor,This letter addresses the critical challenge of preserving privacy in graph learning without compromising on data utility.Differential privacy(DP)is emerging as an effective method for privacy-preserving graph learning.However,its application often diminishes data utility,especially for nodes with fewer neighbors in graph neural networks(GNNs).展开更多
With the popularization of smart devices,Location-Based Services(LBS)greatly facilitates users’life,but at the same time brings the risk of users’location privacy leakage.Existing location privacy protection methods...With the popularization of smart devices,Location-Based Services(LBS)greatly facilitates users’life,but at the same time brings the risk of users’location privacy leakage.Existing location privacy protection methods are deficient,failing to reasonably allocate the privacy budget for non-outlier location points and ignoring the critical location information that may be contained in the outlier points,leading to decreased data availability and privacy exposure problems.To address these problems,this paper proposes a Mix Location Privacy Preservation Method Based on Differential Privacy with Clustering(MLDP).The method first utilizes the DBSCAN clustering algorithm to classify location points into non-outliers and outliers.For non-outliers,the scoring function is designed by combining geographic information and semantic information,and the privacy budget is allocated according to the heat intensity of the hotspot area;for outliers,the scoring function is constructed to allocate the privacy budget based on their correlation with the hotspot area.By comprehensively considering the geographic information,semantic information,and correlation with hotspot areas of the location points,a reasonable privacy budget is assigned to each location point,andfinallynoise is added throughthe Laplacemechanismto realizeprivacyprotection.Experimental results on tworeal trajectory datasets,Geolife and T-Drive,show that the MLDP approach significantly improves data availability while effectively protecting location privacy.Compared with the comparison methods,the maximum available data ratio of MLDP is 1.Moreover,compared with the RandomNoise method,its execution time is 0.056–0.061 s longer,and the logRE is 0.12951–0.62194 lower;compared with KemeansDP,QTK-DP,DPK-F,IDP-SC,and DPK-Means-up methods,it saves 0.114–0.296 s in execution time,and the logRE is 0.01112–0.38283 lower.展开更多
Electric Vehicles(EVs)have developed into a complex ecosystem that includes many technical components such as task offloading on mobile devices,the Internet of Vehicles(IoV),and smart grids.Moreover,Edge Computing(EC)...Electric Vehicles(EVs)have developed into a complex ecosystem that includes many technical components such as task offloading on mobile devices,the Internet of Vehicles(IoV),and smart grids.Moreover,Edge Computing(EC)is a technique that relocates applications and services closer to end-users.This computing paradigm has been extensively adopted across many scenarios,effectively reducing the load on the cloud computing infrastructure and centralized server facilities.EVs are closely related to EC in many aspects since electric vehicles are typically supported by modern communication and Artificial Intelligence(AI)technologies,such as,sensor networks,computation offloading,autonomous systems,and blockchain.However,the diversity and heterogeneity of edge devices have raised many security and privacy concerns in electric vehicles,and some complex EC scenarios make addressing these issues even more challenging.In this paper,we provide a comprehensive review of the security and privacy concerns raised by EC in EVs.First,we elaborate on the development,characteristics,and applications of EC in EVs.Next,we describe the typical architectures used to ensure the security and privacy of EC in EVs.Then,we analyze the risks and challenges related to the security and privacy of EC in EVs,focusing on several significant scenarios(e.g.,offloading,the IoV,and smart grids).We also discuss current research progress on the security and privacy,covering methodologies,architectures,algorithms,insights,and performance.Finally,we discuss several future challenges and issues regarding the security and privacy of EC in EVs.展开更多
The convergence of Artificial Intelligence(AI)and the Internet of Things(IoT)has enabled Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT)systems that support intelligent and responsive smart societies,but it also introduces ma...The convergence of Artificial Intelligence(AI)and the Internet of Things(IoT)has enabled Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT)systems that support intelligent and responsive smart societies,but it also introduces major security and privacy concerns across domains such as healthcare,transportation,and smart cities.This Systemic Literature Review(SLR)addresses three research questions:identifying major threats and challenges in AIoT ecosystems,reviewing state-of-the-art security and privacy techniques,and evaluating their effectiveness.An SLR covering the period from 2020 to 2025 was conducted using major academic digital libraries,including IEEE Xplore,ACM Digital Library,ScienceDirect,SpringerLink,and Wiley Online Library,with a focus on security-and privacy-enhancing techniques such as blockchain,federated learning,and edge AI.The SLR identifies key challenges including data privacy leakage,authentication,cloud dependency,and attack surface expansion,and finds that emerging techniques,while promising,often involve trade-offs related to latency,scalability,and compliance.The study highlights future directions including lightweight cryptography,standardization,and explainable AI to support secure and trustworthy AIoT-enabled smart societies.展开更多
In this paper,we propose a new privacy-aware transmission scheduling algorithm for 6G ad hoc networks.This system enables end nodes to select the optimum time and scheme to transmit private data safely.In 6G dynamic h...In this paper,we propose a new privacy-aware transmission scheduling algorithm for 6G ad hoc networks.This system enables end nodes to select the optimum time and scheme to transmit private data safely.In 6G dynamic heterogeneous infrastructures,unstable links and non-uniform hardware capabilities create critical issues regarding security and privacy.Traditional protocols are often too computationally heavy to allow 6G services to achieve their expected Quality-of-Service(QoS).As the transport network is built of ad hoc nodes,there is no guarantee about their trustworthiness or behavior,and transversal functionalities are delegated to the extreme nodes.However,while security can be guaranteed in extreme-to-extreme solutions,privacy cannot,as all intermediate nodes still have to handle the data packets they are transporting.Besides,traditional schemes for private anonymous ad hoc communications are vulnerable against modern intelligent attacks based on learning models.The proposed scheme fulfills this gap.Findings show the probability of a successful intelligent attack reduces by up to 65%compared to ad hoc networks with no privacy protection strategy when used the proposed technology.While congestion probability can remain below 0.001%,as required in 6G services.展开更多
基金supported by the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology(Chongqing Talent)(Grant No.cstc2024ycjh-bgzxm0048).
摘要The rapid advancement of the Internet of Things(IoT)has transformed edge devices from simple data collectors into intelligent units capable of local processing and collaborative learning.However,the vast amounts of sensitive data generated by these devices face severe constraints from“data silos”and risks of privacy breaches.Federated learning(FL),as a distributed collaborative paradigm that avoids sharing raw data,holds great promise in the IoT domain.Nevertheless,it remains vulnerable to gradient leakage threats.While traditional differential privacy(DP)techniques mitigate privacy risks,they often come at the cost of significantly reduced model performance—a limitation particularly pronounced in resource-constrained IoT environments characterised by non-independent and identically distributed(non-IID)data distribution.To bridge the gap between privacy preservation and high performance on heterogeneous data,this paper proposes a novel personalized federated learning(PFL)method,FedGLP-ADP.This method leverages historical gradient information to provide a more detailed partitioning of parameters,aiming to prevent personalized knowledge from being affected by noise as much as possible,thereby reducing model degradation.Building on this,we propose an adaptive DP mechanism that optimizes both the clipping and noising steps to minimize the impact of noise on global knowledge.Experimental results show that FedGLP-ADP exhibits superior performance compared to other representative methods under different privacy levels and non-IID degrees.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(2025J01380)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62471139)+3 种基金the Major Health Research Project of Fujian Province(2021ZD01001)Fujian Provincial Units Special Funds for Education and Research(2022639)Fujian University of Technology Research Start-up Fund(GY-S24002)Fujian Research and Training Grants for Young and Middle-aged Leaders in Healthcare(GY-H-24179).
摘要The generation of synthetic trajectories has become essential in various fields for analyzing complex movement patterns.However,the use of real-world trajectory data poses significant privacy risks,such as location reidentification and correlation attacks.To address these challenges,privacy-preserving trajectory generation methods are critical for applications relying on sensitive location data.This paper introduces DPIL-Traj,an advanced framework designed to generate synthetic trajectories while achieving a superior balance between data utility and privacy preservation.Firstly,the framework incorporates Differential Privacy Clustering,which anonymizes trajectory data by applying differential privacy techniques that add noise,ensuring the protection of sensitive user information.Secondly,Imitation Learning is used to replicate decision-making behaviors observed in real-world trajectories.By learning from expert trajectories,this component generates synthetic data that closely mimics real-world decision-making processes while optimizing the quality of the generated trajectories.Finally,Markov-based Trajectory Generation is employed to capture and maintain the inherent temporal dynamics of movement patterns.Extensive experiments conducted on the GeoLife trajectory dataset show that DPIL-Traj improves utility performance by an average of 19.85%,and in terms of privacy performance by an average of 12.51%,compared to state-of-the-art approaches.Ablation studies further reveal that DP clustering effectively safeguards privacy,imitation learning enhances utility under noise,and the Markov module strengthens temporal coherence.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62162009the Key Technologies R&D Program of He’nan Province under Grant No.242102211065+2 种基金the Postgraduate Education Reform and Quality Improvement Project of Henan Province under Grant Nos.YJS2025GZZ36,YJS2024AL112,and YJS2024JD38the Innovation Scientists and Technicians Troop Construction Projects of Henan Province under Grant No.CXTD2017099the Scientific Research Innovation Team of Xuchang University under Grant No.2022CXTD003.
摘要With the increasing complexity of malware attack techniques,traditional detection methods face significant challenges,such as privacy preservation,data heterogeneity,and lacking category information.To address these issues,we propose Federated Dynamic Prototype Learning(FedDPL)for malware classification by integrating Federated Learning with a specifically designed K-means.Under the Federated Learning framework,model training occurs locally without data sharing,effectively protecting user data privacy and preventing the leakage of sensitive information.Furthermore,to tackle the challenges of data heterogeneity and the lack of category information,FedDPL introduces a dynamic prototype learning mechanism,which adaptively adjusts the clustering prototypes in terms of position and number.Thus,the dependency on predefined category numbers in typical K-means and its variants can be significantly reduced,resulting in improved clustering performance.Theoretically,it provides a more accurate detection of malicious behavior.Experimental results confirm that FedDPL excels in handling malware classification tasks,demonstrating superior accuracy,robustness,and privacy protection.
基金supported in part by the Research and Development Project of China Railway Information Technology Group under Grant WJZG-CKY-2024040(2024P01)the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China under Grant 62272100the Consulting Project of Chinese Academy of Engineering under Grant 2023-XY-09。
摘要The advent of 6G networks is poised to drive a new era of intelligent,privacy-preserving distributed learning by leveraging advanced communication and AI-driven edge intelligence.Federated Learning(FL)has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable collaborative model training without exposing raw data.However,its deployment in 6G networks faces significant obstacles,including vulnerabilities to inference attacks,the complexities of heterogeneous and dynamic network environments,and the inherent trade-off between privacy protection and model performance.In response to these challenges,we introduce DP-Fed6G,a novel FL framework that integrates differential privacy(DP)to fortify data security while ensuring high-quality learning outcomes.Specifically,DPFed6G employs an adaptive noise injection strategy that dynamically adjusts privacy protection levels based on real-time 6G network conditions and device heterogeneity,ensuring robust data security while maximizing model performance and optimizing the trade-off between privacy and utility.Extensive experiments on three real-world healthcare datasets demonstrate that DP-Fed6G consistently outperforms existing baselines(DP-Fed SGD and DPFed Avg),achieving up to 10.3%higher test accuracy under the same privacy budget.The proposed framework thus provides a practical solution for secure and privacy-preserving AI in 6G,supporting intelligent decisionmaking in privacy-sensitive applications.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFF0612900,2023YFF0612902)the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing,China(4254086)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62472032)the Open Project Funding of Key Laboratory of Mobile Application Innovation and Governance Technology,Ministry of Industry and Information Technology(2023IFS080601-K)the Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholarsthe Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(2023QNRC001)。
摘要Dear Editor,This letter addresses the critical challenge of preserving privacy in graph learning without compromising on data utility.Differential privacy(DP)is emerging as an effective method for privacy-preserving graph learning.However,its application often diminishes data utility,especially for nodes with fewer neighbors in graph neural networks(GNNs).
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61971291)the Basic Scientific Research Project of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education(LJ212410144013)+2 种基金the Leading Talent of the‘Xing Liao Ying Cai Plan’(XLYC2202013)the Shenyang Natural Science Foundation(22-315-6-10)the Guangxuan Scholar of Shenyang Ligong University(SYLUGXXZ202205).
摘要With the popularization of smart devices,Location-Based Services(LBS)greatly facilitates users’life,but at the same time brings the risk of users’location privacy leakage.Existing location privacy protection methods are deficient,failing to reasonably allocate the privacy budget for non-outlier location points and ignoring the critical location information that may be contained in the outlier points,leading to decreased data availability and privacy exposure problems.To address these problems,this paper proposes a Mix Location Privacy Preservation Method Based on Differential Privacy with Clustering(MLDP).The method first utilizes the DBSCAN clustering algorithm to classify location points into non-outliers and outliers.For non-outliers,the scoring function is designed by combining geographic information and semantic information,and the privacy budget is allocated according to the heat intensity of the hotspot area;for outliers,the scoring function is constructed to allocate the privacy budget based on their correlation with the hotspot area.By comprehensively considering the geographic information,semantic information,and correlation with hotspot areas of the location points,a reasonable privacy budget is assigned to each location point,andfinallynoise is added throughthe Laplacemechanismto realizeprivacyprotection.Experimental results on tworeal trajectory datasets,Geolife and T-Drive,show that the MLDP approach significantly improves data availability while effectively protecting location privacy.Compared with the comparison methods,the maximum available data ratio of MLDP is 1.Moreover,compared with the RandomNoise method,its execution time is 0.056–0.061 s longer,and the logRE is 0.12951–0.62194 lower;compared with KemeansDP,QTK-DP,DPK-F,IDP-SC,and DPK-Means-up methods,it saves 0.114–0.296 s in execution time,and the logRE is 0.01112–0.38283 lower.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under grant No.2022YFF0902500the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.92367103 and No.62472338the Open Foundation of Yunnan Key Laboratory of Software Engineering under grant No.2023SE301。
摘要Electric Vehicles(EVs)have developed into a complex ecosystem that includes many technical components such as task offloading on mobile devices,the Internet of Vehicles(IoV),and smart grids.Moreover,Edge Computing(EC)is a technique that relocates applications and services closer to end-users.This computing paradigm has been extensively adopted across many scenarios,effectively reducing the load on the cloud computing infrastructure and centralized server facilities.EVs are closely related to EC in many aspects since electric vehicles are typically supported by modern communication and Artificial Intelligence(AI)technologies,such as,sensor networks,computation offloading,autonomous systems,and blockchain.However,the diversity and heterogeneity of edge devices have raised many security and privacy concerns in electric vehicles,and some complex EC scenarios make addressing these issues even more challenging.In this paper,we provide a comprehensive review of the security and privacy concerns raised by EC in EVs.First,we elaborate on the development,characteristics,and applications of EC in EVs.Next,we describe the typical architectures used to ensure the security and privacy of EC in EVs.Then,we analyze the risks and challenges related to the security and privacy of EC in EVs,focusing on several significant scenarios(e.g.,offloading,the IoV,and smart grids).We also discuss current research progress on the security and privacy,covering methodologies,architectures,algorithms,insights,and performance.Finally,we discuss several future challenges and issues regarding the security and privacy of EC in EVs.
摘要The convergence of Artificial Intelligence(AI)and the Internet of Things(IoT)has enabled Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT)systems that support intelligent and responsive smart societies,but it also introduces major security and privacy concerns across domains such as healthcare,transportation,and smart cities.This Systemic Literature Review(SLR)addresses three research questions:identifying major threats and challenges in AIoT ecosystems,reviewing state-of-the-art security and privacy techniques,and evaluating their effectiveness.An SLR covering the period from 2020 to 2025 was conducted using major academic digital libraries,including IEEE Xplore,ACM Digital Library,ScienceDirect,SpringerLink,and Wiley Online Library,with a focus on security-and privacy-enhancing techniques such as blockchain,federated learning,and edge AI.The SLR identifies key challenges including data privacy leakage,authentication,cloud dependency,and attack surface expansion,and finds that emerging techniques,while promising,often involve trade-offs related to latency,scalability,and compliance.The study highlights future directions including lightweight cryptography,standardization,and explainable AI to support secure and trustworthy AIoT-enabled smart societies.
基金funding from the European Commission by the Ruralities project(grant agreement no.101060876).
摘要In this paper,we propose a new privacy-aware transmission scheduling algorithm for 6G ad hoc networks.This system enables end nodes to select the optimum time and scheme to transmit private data safely.In 6G dynamic heterogeneous infrastructures,unstable links and non-uniform hardware capabilities create critical issues regarding security and privacy.Traditional protocols are often too computationally heavy to allow 6G services to achieve their expected Quality-of-Service(QoS).As the transport network is built of ad hoc nodes,there is no guarantee about their trustworthiness or behavior,and transversal functionalities are delegated to the extreme nodes.However,while security can be guaranteed in extreme-to-extreme solutions,privacy cannot,as all intermediate nodes still have to handle the data packets they are transporting.Besides,traditional schemes for private anonymous ad hoc communications are vulnerable against modern intelligent attacks based on learning models.The proposed scheme fulfills this gap.Findings show the probability of a successful intelligent attack reduces by up to 65%compared to ad hoc networks with no privacy protection strategy when used the proposed technology.While congestion probability can remain below 0.001%,as required in 6G services.