2026· IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems· Vol 7, pp. 1904-1918· 0 citations· 39 references
TL;DR
Experiments demonstrate that HG-FL achieves superior performance compared to centralized, flat federated, and graph-only baselines, and highlight the framework’s scalability, robustness, and effectiveness in achieving cross-domain generalization and service-level assurance within privacy-preserving ITS environments.
Abstract
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) generate vast heterogeneous data from roadside units (RSUs), traffic management centers (TMCs), and vehicular networks, posing challenges for privacy, scalability, and cross-domain learning. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Graph Federated Learning (HG-FL) framework that integrates multi-level aggregation, spatio-temporal graph modeling, and autoencoder-based feature compression to enable privacy-preserving, distributed ITS analytics. The framework mirrors real-world ITS hierarchy through three tiers: local RSU-level training, regional TMC-level aggregation, and global cross-domain coordination. Experiments conducted on the CIC-IoV 2024 Decimal Dataset and the NF-ToN-IoT-v2 dataset demonstrate that HG-FL achieves superior performance compared to centralized, flat federated, and graph-only baselines. Specifically, on the combined dataset, HG-FL attains an AUROC of 0.964, AUPRC of 0.947, and F1-score of 0.929, while reducing communication cost to 162 MB and convergence rounds to 15. For SLA violation risk prediction, it achieves an RMSE of 0.121 and a Brier score of 0.059, outperforming baseline methods. These results highlight the framework’s scalability, robustness, and effectiveness in achieving cross-domain generalization and service-level assurance within privacy-preserving ITS environments.
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Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) increasingly rely on federated learning (FL) to enable collaborative intelligence without sharing raw sensory data. However, most existing vehicular FL frameworks assume that all vehicles train a single global model for a common task, which limits their applicability in practical vehicular environments where vehicles may perform heterogeneous learning tasks under non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data, intermittent connectivity, and high mobility. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an AutoEncoder-based Reliability-Optimized Hierarchical Multi-Task Federated Learning (AERO-HMTFL) framework for dynamic multi-hop clustered VANETs. The proposed framework introduces a tri-weighted clustering metric that jointly considers vehicular mobility, shared-model similarity, and task affinity to produce mobility-stable, semantically aligned clusters. Each vehicle employs a split-model architecture comprising a shared autoencoder-based representation module and multiple task-specific heads, with only the shared autoencoder parameters exchanged while the task heads remain local. To improve robustness, cluster heads perform reliability-aware aggregation based on historical validation performance and participation frequency, while the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) conducts global shared-autoencoder fusion across clusters. Extensive simulations demonstrate that, compared with the multi-task federated learning benchmarks, AERO-HMTFL achieves up to 13% higher sustained EPC-level accuracy, exhibits more stable learning dynamics, and reduces EPC-level packet transmissions by approximately 87-97%. Under short-range connectivity, it also requires approximately 13-29% fewer communication rounds to converge.
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