PFL published in IEEE World Forum on IoT 2023
Congratulation to Dr. Ahmed of our group along with his collabrators from TU-Dublin, Ireland and RMC, Canada for the publication of work titled “Federated Learning for IoT Networks: Enhancing Efficiency and Privacy” in IEEE World Forum on IoT 2023. In this work, we showcases two illustrative scenarios that highlight the potential of federated learning (FL) as a key to delivering efficient and privacy-preserving machine learning within IoT networks. We first give the mathematical foundations for key aggregation algorithms in federated learning, i.e., FedAvg and FedProx. Then, we conduct simulations, using Flower Framework, to show the \textit{efficiency} of these algorithms by training deep neural networks on common datasets and show a comparison between the accuracy and loss metrics of FedAvg and FedProx. Then, we present the results highlighting the trade-off between maintaining privacy versus accuracy via simulations - involving the implementation of the differential privacy (DP) method - in Pytorch and Opacus ML frameworks on common FL datasets and data distributions for both FedAvg and FedProx strategies.