Table 6 Ablation study of privacy Components.

From: Blockchain-enabled federated learning with edge analytics for secure and efficient electronic health records management

Privacy Configuration

Accuracy (%)

Communication Overhead

DP Only

90.3

Medium

SMPC Only

91.5

High

DP + SMPC (Combined)

89.1

Very High

None (Baseline FL)

93.7

Low

EPP-BCFL (Optimized)

95.2

Low