Differential Privacy for Secure Machine Learning in Healthcare IoT-Cloud Systems

This paper proposes a multi-layer IoT-Edge-Cloud healthcare architecture combining differential privacy with a hybrid Laplace-Gaussian noise mechanism, achieving 82-84% ML accuracy while reducing inference attacks by up to 70%, with blockchain for data integrity and edge computing delivering 8× latency reduction for emergencies.

December 2025 · N Mangala, Murtaza Rangwala, S Aishwarya, B Eswara Reddy, Rajkumar Buyya, KR Venugopal, SS Iyengar, LM Patnaik

Network Structures as an Attack Surface: Topology-Based Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning

This paper identifies network topology as a fundamental privacy vulnerability in federated learning systems, demonstrating that adversaries can infer sensitive data distribution patterns through communication patterns, parameter magnitudes, and structural correlations even under strong differential privacy guarantees.

June 2025 · Murtaza Rangwala, Richard O. Sinnott, Rajkumar Buyya