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However, attackers from the outside can steal metadata in transit and through data reconstruction or other techniques to obtain the original data, which poses a great threat to the security of the federated learning system. In this paper, we propose a differential privacy strategy including encryption and decryption methods based on local features of non-Gaussian noise, which aggregates the noisy metadata through a sequential Kalman filter in federated learning scenarios to increase the reliability of the federated learning method. We name the local features of non-Gaussian noise as the non-Gaussian noise fragments. Compared with the traditional methods, the proposed method shows stronger security performance for two reasons. Firstly, non-Gaussian noise fragments contain more complex statistics, making them more difficult for attackers to identify. Secondly, in order to obtain accurate statistical features, attackers must aggregate all of the noise fragments, which is very difficult due to the increasing number of clients. We conduct experiments that demonstrate that the proposed method can greatly enhanced the system\u2019s security.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22072424","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,21]],"date-time":"2022-03-21T21:48:42Z","timestamp":1647899322000},"page":"2424","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Differential Privacy Strategy Based on Local Features of Non-Gaussian Noise in Federated Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Xinyi","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jincheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xue","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chenglin","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming 525000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"35","DOI":"10.1109\/OJCS.2020.2993259","article-title":"Personalized federated learning for intelligent IoT applications: A cloud-edge based framework","volume":"1","author":"Wu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Open J. 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