Multi-Region Asynchronous Swarm Learning for Data Sharing in Large-Scale
Internet of Vehicles
Abstract
To provide various intelligent services in Internet of Vehicles (IoVs),
such as autonomous driving, data sharing technologies enable vehicles to
overcome information barriers and provide a big data foundation.
Federated Learning (FL), which shares models instead of raw data, has
emerged as a popular solution to address privacy concerns. However,
current approaches are limited scalability and security, which are not
suitable for the dynamic network topology of IoV scenarios. In this
letter, we propose a Multi-Region Asynchronous Swarm Learning (MASL)
framework in IoVs, which is empowered by the hierarchical blockchain and
executed parallel between multiple regions. The MASL integrates identity
verification and asynchronous model training while ensuring secure
aggregation as well as data privacy. Through intra-regional and
cross-regional sharing, the security and efficiency during large-scale
data sharing in IoVs are effectively improved while alleviating the
Non-IID data problem. Finally, both the simulation and hardware testbed
results demonstrate that the proposed MASL framework could achieve
better performances in terms of efficiency and security compared with the
existing algorithms.