Privacy – NetsLab

Rec-Def: A Recommendation-based Defence Mechanism for Privacy Preservation in Federated Learning Systems

November 19, 2023
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An emergence of attention and regulations on consumer privacy can be observed over the recent years with the ubiquitous availability of IoT systems handling personal data. Federated Learning (FL) arises as a privacy-preserved Machine Learning (ML) technique where data can be kept private within these devices without transmitting to third parties. Yet, many privacy attacks […]

FL-TIA: Novel Time Inference Attacks on Federated Learning

November 19, 2023
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Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging privacy-preserved distributed Machine Learning (ML) technique where multiple clients can contribute to training an ML model without sharing private data. Even though FL offers a certain level of privacy by design, recent works show that FL is vulnerable to numerous privacy attacks. One of the key features of FL […]

Realizing Internet of Things with Network Slicing: Opportunities and Challenges

November 17, 2023
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Internet of Things (IoT) is a lucrative technology within the modern community that realizes the concept of the smart world, by expanding within a myriad of applications. Existing wireless networks require a radical change to fulfill the network requirements and cater the rapid expansion of the IoT ecosystem. 5G architecture is specifically designed to facilitate […]

Privacy of the Metaverse: Current Issues, AI Attacks, and Possible Solutions

July 1, 2023
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Metaverse is a key emerging digital transformation concept for the next generation of cyberspace. It is expected to create a self-sustaining virtual ecosystem of fully immersive, real-time experiences with numerous opportunities for general users and industries to interact with the world. With the introduction of 6G networks and enabling technologies, the metaverse will achieve its […]

Need of 6G for the Metaverse Realization

December 1, 2022
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The concept of the Metaverse aims to bring a fully-fledged extended reality environment to provide next generation applications and services. Development of the Metaverse is backed by many technologies, including, 5G, artificial intelligence, edge computing and extended reality. The advent of 6G is envisaged to mark a significant milestone in the development of the Metaverse, […]

A Survey on Privacy for B5G/6G: New Privacy Challenges, and Research Directions

October 10, 2022
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Massive developments in mobile wireless telecommunication networks have been made during the last few decades. At present, mobile users are getting familiar with the latest 5G networks, and the discussion for the next generation of Beyond 5G (B5G)/6G networks has already been initiated. It is expected that B5G/6G will push the existing network capabilities to […]

Survey on Multi-Access Edge Computing Security and Privacy

February 26, 2021
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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has introduced the paradigm of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to enable efficient and fast data processing in mobile networks. Among other technological requirements, security and privacy are significant factors in the realization of MECdeployments. In this paper, we analyse the security and privacy of the MEC system. We introduce […]