Publication: CoLearn: enabling federated learning in MUD-compliant IoT edge networks

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Abstract

Edge computing and Federated Learning (FL) can work in tandem to address issues related to privacy and collaborative distributed learning in untrusted IoT environments. However, deployment of FL in resource-constrained IoT devices faces challenges including asynchronous participation of such devices in training, and the need to prevent malicious devices from participating. To address these challenges we present CoLearn, which build on the open-source Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) implementation osMUD and the FL framework PySyft. We deploy CoLearn on resource-constrained devices in a lab environment to demonstrate (i) an asynchronous participation mechanism for IoT devices in machine learning model training using a publish/subscribe architecture, (ii) a mechanism for reducing the attack surface in FL architecture by allowing only IoT MUD-compliant devices to participate in the training phases, and (iii) a trade-off between communication bandwidth usage, training time and device temperature (thermal fatigue).

People

• Angelo Feraudo
• Poonam Yadam
• Vadim Safronov
• Diana Andreea Popescu
• Richard Mortier
• Shiqiang Wang
• Paolo Bellavista
• Jon Crowcroft

Theme

West Cambridge Digital Twin

Citation

EdgeSys '20: Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking April 2020 Pages 25–30 https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394528

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394528