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Sensors and Materials, Volume 38, Number 8(3) (2026)
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pp. 4621-4636
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Published: August 27, 2026

Federated Learning Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Privacy-preserving and Wi-Fi Spoofing Detection in Sensor Networks [PDF]

Xinying Lin and Zhengji Mao

(Received May 11, 2026; Accepted July 29, 2026)

Keywords: federated learning, multi-sensor fusion, privacy-preserving security, behavioral entropy

The rapid expansion of IoT devices in smart campuses has increased vulnerabilities to Wi-Fi spoofing and signal mimicry attacks. Therefore, a decentralized, lightweight physical-layer anomaly detection system is developed in this study, operating autonomously at resource-constrained edge nodes. The developed federated learning multi-sensor fusion (FL-MSF) system integrates received signal strength, multipath delay spreads, and background noise into a regional fluctuation index (RFI). RFI enables edge transceivers to isolate malicious signal injections from benign fluctuations without relying on heavy centralized classifiers. To address non-independent and identically distributed data across heterogeneous environments, FL-MSF introduces an adaptive aggregation mechanism that weights local model updates based on material attenuation profiles. Model updates are securely combined using the federated averaging (FedAvg) protocol with clipping-based differential privacy, ensuring strong data sovereignty. Simulation results in a high-density campus environment (50 edge nodes, 200 IoT clients) show that FL-MSF achieves 96.5% detection accuracy, a 0.95 F1-score, and low latency (31 ms), outperforming baseline long short-term memory networks, graph neural networks, and FedAvg models. Gradient leakage risk was reduced to <0.5%, and scalability tests presented accuracy gains as sensor density increased. Performance under extreme scaling and management of long-term drifts in material attenuation parameters must be addressed to enhance the availability of the developed system.

Corresponding author: Zhengji Mao


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Xinying Lin and Zhengji Mao, Federated Learning Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Privacy-preserving and Wi-Fi Spoofing Detection in Sensor Networks, Sens. Mater., Vol. 38, No. 8, 2026, p. 4621-4636.



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