Shahriar Md Arman¹, Tao Yang^1,*, Shahadat Shahed², Alanoud Al Mazroa³, Afraa Attiah⁴, Linda Mohaisen⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2087-2110, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047870

Abstract The rapid growth of smart technologies and services has intensified the challenges surrounding identity authentication techniques. Biometric credentials are increasingly being used for verification due to their advantages over traditional methods, making it crucial to safeguard the privacy of people’s biometric data in various scenarios. This paper offers an in-depth exploration for privacy-preserving techniques and potential threats to biometric systems. It proposes a noble and thorough taxonomy survey for privacy-preserving techniques, as well as a systematic framework for categorizing the field’s existing literature. We review the state-of-the-art methods and address their advantages and limitations in More >

Sunil Kumar¹, Dilip Kumar¹, Ramraj Dangi², Gaurav Choudhary³, Nicola Dragoni⁴, Ilsun You^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 31-63, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.047084

Abstract The widespread and growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) may be attributed to its usefulness in many different fields. Physical settings are probed for data, which is then transferred via linked networks. There are several hurdles to overcome when putting IoT into practice, from managing server infrastructure to coordinating the use of tiny sensors. When it comes to deploying IoT, everyone agrees that security is the biggest issue. This is due to the fact that a large number of IoT devices exist in the physical world and that many of them have constrained More >

Yurong Luo, Wei You^*, Chao Shang, Xiongpeng Ren, Jin Cao, Hui Li

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.2, pp. 2237-2260, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.045679

Abstract The dynamic landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to revolutionize the pace of interaction among entities, ushering in a proliferation of applications characterized by heightened quality and diversity. Among the pivotal applications within the realm of IoT, as a significant example, the Smart Grid (SG) evolves into intricate networks of energy deployment marked by data integration. This evolution concurrently entails data interchange with other IoT entities. However, there are also several challenges including data-sharing overheads and the intricate establishment of trusted centers in the IoT ecosystem. In this paper, we introduce a More >

Sanxiu Jiao¹, Lecai Cai^2,*, Jintao Meng³, Yue Zhao³, Kui Cheng²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.1, pp. 247-265, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040194

Abstract Federated learning is a distributed machine learning framework that solves data security and data island problems faced by artificial intelligence. However, federated learning frameworks are not always secure, and attackers can attack customer privacy information by analyzing parameters in the training process of federated learning models. To solve the problems of data security and availability during federated learning training, this paper proposes an Efficient Differential Privacy Federated Learning Algorithm based on early stopping mechanism (Efficient DP-FL). This method inherits the advantages of differential privacy and federated learning and improves the performance of model training while More >

Jiansheng Peng^1,2,*, Jinsong Guo¹, Fengbo Bao¹, Chengjun Yang², Yong Xu², Yong Qin²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 2971-2994, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041897

Abstract The robotics industry has seen rapid development in recent years due to the Corona Virus Disease 2019. With the development of sensors and smart devices, factories and enterprises have accumulated a large amount of data in their daily production, which creates extremely favorable conditions for robots to perform machine learning. However, in recent years, people’s awareness of data privacy has been increasing, leading to the inability to circulate data between different enterprises, resulting in the emergence of data silos. The emergence of federated learning provides a feasible solution to this problem, and the combination of… More >

Fares Alharbi¹, Reem Alshahrani², Mohammed Zakariah^3,*, Amjad Aldweesh¹, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3697-3722, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040086

Abstract Privacy and trust are significant issues in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Data security is critical in ITS systems since sensitive user data is communicated to another user over the internet through wireless devices and routes such as radio channels, optical fiber, and blockchain technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of connected, interconnected gadgets. Privacy issues occasionally arise due to the amount of data generated. However, they have been primarily addressed by blockchain and smart contract technology. While there are still security issues with smart contracts, primarily due to the complexity of writing… More >

Chunlin Xiong^1,2, Zhengqiu Weng^3,4,*, Jia Liu¹, Liang Gu², Fayez Alqahtani⁵, Amr Gafar⁶, Pradip Kumar Sharma⁷

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 3013-3032, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031088

Abstract With the development of hardware devices and the upgrading of smartphones, a large number of users save privacy-related information in mobile devices, mainly smartphones, which puts forward higher demands on the protection of mobile users’ privacy information. At present, mobile user authentication methods based on human-computer interaction have been extensively studied due to their advantages of high precision and non-perception, but there are still shortcomings such as low data collection efficiency, untrustworthy participating nodes, and lack of practicability. To this end, this paper proposes a privacy-enhanced mobile user authentication method with motion sensors, which mainly… More >

Seungwoo Kang¹, Seyha Ros¹, Inseok Song¹, Prohim Tam¹, Sa Math², Seokhoon Kim^1,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1967-1983, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045020

Abstract Intelligent healthcare networks represent a significant component in digital applications, where the requirements hold within quality-of-service (QoS) reliability and safeguarding privacy. This paper addresses these requirements through the integration of enabler paradigms, including federated learning (FL), cloud/edge computing, software-defined/virtualized networking infrastructure, and converged prediction algorithms. The study focuses on achieving reliability and efficiency in real-time prediction models, which depend on the interaction flows and network topology. In response to these challenges, we introduce a modified version of federated logistic regression (FLR) that takes into account convergence latencies and the accuracy of the final FL model… More >

Yonghao Tang¹, Zhiping Cai^1,*, Qiang Liu¹, Tongqing Zhou¹, Qiang Ni²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2645-2656, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032307

Abstract As an emerging discipline, machine learning has been widely used in artificial intelligence, education, meteorology and other fields. In the training of machine learning models, trainers need to use a large amount of practical data, which inevitably involves user privacy. Besides, by polluting the training data, a malicious adversary can poison the model, thus compromising model security. The data provider hopes that the model trainer can prove to them the confidentiality of the model. Trainer will be required to withdraw data when the trust collapses. In the meantime, trainers hope to forget the injected data More >

Sanxiu Jiao¹, Lecai Cai^2,*, Xinjie Wang¹, Kui Cheng², Xiang Gao³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1679-1694, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030512

Abstract As a distributed machine learning method, federated learning (FL) has the advantage of naturally protecting data privacy. It keeps data locally and trains local models through local data to protect the privacy of local data. The federated learning method effectively solves the problem of artificial Smart data islands and privacy protection issues. However, existing research shows that attackers may still steal user information by analyzing the parameters in the federated learning training process and the aggregation parameters on the server side. To solve this problem, differential privacy (DP) techniques are widely used for privacy protection… More > Graphic Abstract