InFeMo: Flexible Big Data Management Through a Federated Cloud System

• Published in: ACM transactions on Internet technology Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 1 - 22
• Main Authors: Stergiou, Christos L., Psannis, Konstantinos E., Gupta, Brij B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.05.2022
• ISSN: 1533-5399; 1557-6051
• DOI: 10.1145/3426972

This paper introduces and describes a novel architecture scenario based on Cloud Computing and counts on the innovative model of Federated Learning. The proposed model is named Integrated Federated Model , with the acronym InFeMo . InFeMo incorporates all the existing Cloud models with a federated learning scenario, as well as other related technologies that may have integrated use with each other, offering a novel integrated scenario. In addition to this, the proposed model is motivated to deliver a more energy efficient system architecture and environment for the users, which aims to the scope of data management. Also, by applying the InFeMo the user would have less waiting time in every procedure queue. The proposed system was built on the resources made available by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and by using the PaaS (Platform as a Service) model, in order to be able to handle user requests better and faster. This research tries to fill a scientific gap in the field of federated Cloud systems. Thus, taking advantage of the existing scenarios of FedAvg and CO-OP, we were keen to end up with a new federated scenario that merges these two algorithms, and aiming for a more efficient model that is able to select, depending on the occasion, if it “trains” the model locally in client or globally in server.