Federated-Boosting: A Distributed and Dynamic Boosting-Powered Cyber-Attack Detection Scheme for Security and Privacy of Consumer IoT

Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT) is an emerging technology that took the traditional consumer electronics to next level with smarter devices and higher connectivity. However, the rapid boom of this technology has captured a great deal of hacker’s attention in the past decade. Due to resource restricted nature of CIoT devices and limited computational abilities, security professionals are unable to strengthen the security and privacy measures. Since the existing security methods suffers from data imbalance and overfitting issues, this paper proposes a distributed and dynamic weighted boosting method named Federated-Boosting for the accurate and timely detection of cyber-attacks in CIoT. Specifically, a weighting strategy is designed to overcome the data imbalance issue by dynamically adjusting the weights of weaker class samples. Additionally, a regularized loss function is designed that helps in controlling the overfitting of the model and provide enhance performance and generalization. Finally, a time-based and performance-based dynamic aggregation scheme is designed using distributed training model that keeps the privacy of the CIoT devices intact to the local server. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets validates the superior performance of Federated-Boosting model against state-of-the-art detection models.