Data · dataset · 2026
Code and results for "Semantic Knowledge-Base Poisoning in AI-Native 6G: A Provenance-Based Meaning-Drift Audit for Trustworthy Federated Semantic Communication"
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This record contains the complete, self-contained code and precomputed results accompanying the article "Semantic Knowledge-Base Poisoning in AI-Native 6G: A Provenance-Based Meaning-Drift Audit for Trustworthy Federated Semantic Communication." It reproduces every table and figure in the paper.
Description
The study introduces semantic knowledge-base (KB) poisoning, a targeted attack on federated semantic communication in which a small set of malicious clients steer the recovered meaning of a chosen concept toward an attacker-selected concept while deliberately preserving classification accuracy, rendering the attack largely undetectable by accuracy monitoring.
To detect and mitigate it, the framework anchors per-client semantic fingerprints of codebook contributions in a hash-chained ledger, producing a tamper-evident meaning-space drift audit; a simple threshold on this audit is shown to be the strongest, most robust defense. The software (package "s6g") is a reproducible testbed written in pure NumPy, with matplotlib for figures and scikit-learn for the real-modality dataset.
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It requires no GPU, no deep-learning framework, and no external downloads, and runs end to end on a single CPU in minutes; the transceiver's manual backpropagation is finite-difference verified. Included: the s6g package (synthetic and real semantic spaces, wireless channel, transceiver, attacks, aggregation and detection defenses, provenance ledger and drift audit, and a reinforcement-learning trust policy); experiment drivers for multi-seed statistics, real-modality validation on handwritten digits, an audit-aware adaptive adversary, and detection-based baselines (FLTrust, FoolsGold); raw per-seed results as JSON; generated figures; and a Word README documenting layout, commands, and results.
Contents: README.docx, requirements.txt, the s6g/ package, four experiment driver scripts, results/ and figures/ directories, and *_results.json data files. To reproduce, install the requirements and run the drivers as documented in the README; each driver's "report" command prints the aggregated results. Keywords: 6G; semantic communication; federated learning; data poisoning; blockchain provenance; trust; Byzantine robustness.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17632/7v7r36ptmw.1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from researchdata tees ac uk
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record data.mendeley.com/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Adata… ↗
metadata API · from researchdata tees ac uk
Topics
- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Humanities · Life Sciences · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Artificial intelligence 74% · Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teesside University Research Data Repository | oai:data.mendeley.com/7v7r36ptmw.1 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
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| access_level | source · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4602 | enrichment · researchdata tees ac uk | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (74%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · researchdata tees ac uk | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| description | source · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license | source · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/rights |
| publication_date | source · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · researchdata tees ac uk | connector:researchdata_tees_ac_uk@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |