A group key exchange and secure data sharing based on privacy protection for federated learning in edge‐cloud collaborative computing environment

Abstract

SummaryFederated learning (FL) is widely used in internet of things (IoT) scenarios such as health research, automotive autopilot, and smart home systems. In the process of model training of FL, each round of model training requires rigorous decryption training and encryption uploading steps. The efficiency of FL is seriously affected by frequent encryption and decryption operations. A scheme of key computation and key management with high efficiency is urgently needed. Therefore, we propose a group key agreement technique to keep private information and confidential data from being leaked, which is used to encrypt and decrypt the transmitted data among IoT terminals. The key agreement scheme includes hidden attribute authentication, multipolicy access, and ciphertext storage. Key agreement is designed with edge‐cloud collaborative network architecture. Firstly, the terminal generates its own public and private keys through the key algorithm then confirms the authenticity and mapping relationship of its private and public keys to the cloud server. Secondly, IoT terminals can confirm their cryptographic attributes to the cloud and obtain the permissions corresponding to each attribute by encrypting the attributes. The terminal uses these permissions to encrypt the FL model parameters and uploads the secret parameters to the edge server. Through the storage of the edge server, these ciphertext decryption parameters are shared with the other terminal models of FL. Finally, other terminal models are trained by downloading and decrypting the shared model parameters for the purpose of FL. The performance analysis shows that this model has a better performance in computational complexity and computational time compared with the cited literature.

A Trusted Internet of Things Access Scheme for Cloud Edge Collaboration

“…According to Mes 1 , it gets: R 1 : 16 , A 12 and the random number validation rule, we obtain: R 17 : 13 and the arbitration rules, we get: R 18 : In summary, all goals have been achieved. Therefore, the correctness of this scheme has been verified.…”

“…Cloud computing is an information processing method that has a large amount of computing resources, organizes, and calls various information resources through the network, and can perform large-scale computing [12,13,38]. This technology concentrates dispersed resources and forms a powerful computing resource pool through distributed technology, resource virtualization technology, and other means.…”

“…Due to the importance of authentication, the academic community has never stopped analyzing and designing security protocols. Due to different application environments, security requirements, and design methods, the corresponding authentication protocols are also different, and new attack methods are constantly emerging [13]. Most resource constrained terminals are unable to perform many complex and powerful calculations due to resource and capability limitations [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”