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On Differential Privacy for Federated Learning in Wireless Systems with Multiple Base Stations

2022/08/25 by Nima Tavangaran, Tavangaran, Nima, Mingzhe Chen +7 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.11848

openalex publication_date 2022/08/25 · openalex created_date 2022/08/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this work, we consider a federated learning model in a wireless system with multiple base stations and inter-cell interference. We apply a differential private scheme to transmit information from users to their corresponding base station during the learning phase. We show the convergence behavior of the learning process by deriving an upper bound on its optimality gap. Furthermore, we define an optimization problem to reduce this upper bound and the total privacy leakage. To find the locally optimal solutions of this problem, we first propose an algorithm that schedules the resource blocks and users. We then extend this scheme to reduce the total privacy leakage by optimizing the differential privacy artificial noise. We apply the solutions of these two procedures as parameters of a federated learning system. In this setting, we assume that each user is equipped with a classifier. Moreover, the communication cells are assumed to have mostly fewer resource blocks than numbers of users. The simulation results show that our proposed scheduler improves the average accuracy of the predictions compared with a random scheduler. Furthermore, its extended version with noise optimizer significantly reduces the amount of privacy leakage.

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