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Title: Evaluation of Thermal Stress on Heterogeneous IoT-Based Federated Learning
Federated learning is a novel paradigm allowing the training of a global machine-learning model on distributed devices. It shares model parameters instead of private raw data during the entire model training process. While federated learning enables machine learning processes to take place collaboratively on Internet of Things (IoT) devices, compared to data centers, IoT devices with limited resource budgets typically have less security protection and are more vulnerable to potential thermal stress. Current research on the evaluation of federated learning is mainly based on the simulation of multi-clients/processes on a single machine/device. However, there is a gap in understanding the performance of federated learning under thermal stress in real-world distributed low-power heterogeneous IoT devices. Our previous work was among the first to evaluate the performance of federated learning under thermal stress on real-world IoT-based distributed systems. In this paper, we extended our work to a larger scale of heterogeneous real-world IoT-based distributed systems to further evaluate the performance of federated learning under thermal stress. To the best of our knowledge, the presented work is among the first to evaluate the performance of federated learning under thermal stress on real-world heterogeneous IoT-based systems. We conducted comprehensive experiments using the MNIST dataset and various performance metrics, including training time, CPU and GPU utilization rate, temperature, and power consumption. We varied the proportion of clients under thermal stress in each group of experiments and systematically quantified the effectiveness and real-world impact of thermal stress on the low-end heterogeneous IoT-based federated learning system. We added 67% more training epochs and 50% more clients compared with our previous work. The experimental results demonstrate that thermal stress is still effective on IoT-based federated learning systems as the entire global model and device performance degrade when even a small ratio of IoT devices are being impacted. Experimental results have also shown that the more influenced client under thermal stress within the federated learning system (FLS) tends to have a more major impact on the performance of FLS under thermal stress.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2300955
PAR ID:
10535922
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Electronics
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Electronics
Volume:
13
Issue:
16
ISSN:
2079-9292
Page Range / eLocation ID:
3140
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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