Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Federated QoS Prediction for Cloud Services

With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, large-scale online applications composed of services have been deployed in many critical areas. In order to ensure the performance of cloud applications, Quality of Service (QoS) is a key indicator commonly used for service selection and adaptation. Previous studies have proposed collaborative QoS prediction approaches to estimate personalized QoS values. However, collaborative QoS prediction encounters privacy problems in practice. As a result, privacy threat has become a key challenge to make QoS prediction approaches practical. In this paper, we proposed a privacy-preserving QoS prediction approach employing federated learning techniques to tackle this grand challenge. We further improve the prediction efficiency by reducing system overhead and make the federated privacy-preserving QoS prediction approach feasible. The proposed approach is evaluated on a large-scale real-world QoS dataset, and the experimental results confirm its effectiveness and efficiency.