The rapid expansion of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments has heightened security risks, as resource-constrained devices remain vulnerable to diverse cyberattacks. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaborative intrusion detection; however, device and data heterogeneity introduce major challenges, including straggler delays, unstable convergence, and unbalanced error rates. This paper presents a Calibrated Federated Learning method with Hardware-aware Fuzzy Clustering (CF-HFC) to enhance intrusion detection performance in heterogeneous IoT networks. The proposed three-tier Edge-Fog-Cloud architecture integrates three complementary components: (1) hardware-aware fuzzy clustering, which organizes clients by computational capacity to mitigate straggler effects; (2) Fuzzy-FedProx aggregation, which stabilizes optimization under non-IID data distributions; and (3) Adaptive Conformal Calibration (ACC), which dynamically adjusts decision thresholds to balance false negative and false positive rates. Extensive experiments on ToN-IoT, BoT-IoT, Edge-IIoTset, and CICDDoS2019 datasets demonstrate that CF-HFC outperforms baseline methods such as FedAvg and FedProx, achieving over 99% detection accuracy, faster convergence, and lower communication latency. Overall, the results verify that CF-HFC effectively mitigates both device- and data-level heterogeneity, compared to existing federated learning approaches, providing accurate and efficient intrusion detection across Heterogeneous IoTs environment.
翻译:异构物联网(IoT)环境的快速扩张加剧了安全风险,资源受限设备仍易受各类网络攻击。联邦学习(FL)作为一种隐私保护的协作入侵检测范式应运而生;然而,设备与数据异构性带来了主要挑战,包括滞后节点延迟、收敛不稳定以及错误率不均衡。本文提出一种结合硬件感知模糊聚类的校准联邦学习方法(CF-HFC),以提升异构物联网网络中的入侵检测性能。所提出的三层边缘-雾-云架构整合了三个互补组件:(1)硬件感知模糊聚类,按计算能力组织客户端以缓解滞后效应;(2)模糊FedProx聚合,在非独立同分布数据条件下稳定优化过程;(3)自适应共形校准(ACC),动态调整决策阈值以平衡漏报率与误报率。在ToN-IoT、BoT-IoT、Edge-IIoTset和CICDDoS2019数据集上的大量实验表明,CF-HFC在检测准确率(超过99%)、收敛速度和通信延迟方面均优于FedAvg、FedProx等基线方法。总体而言,相较于现有联邦学习方法,CF-HFC能有效缓解设备与数据层面的异构性问题,为异构物联网环境提供准确高效的入侵检测。