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Blockchain-Based Task Offloading in Drone-Aided Mobile Edge Computing
- Source :
- IEEE Network. 35:124-129
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021.
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Abstract
- An increasing number of cloud providers now offer mobile edge computing (MEC) services for their customers to support task offloading. This is undertaken to reduce latency associated with forwarding data from IoT devices owned by customers to cloud platforms. However, two challenges remain in existing MEC scenarios: (i) the coverage of MEC services is limited; (ii) there is limited ability to develop an audit trail about which MEC service providers have processed a user's data. A new architecture for automatically offloading user tasks in MEC scenarios is proposed that addresses the two challenges above. The architecture makes use of drones to dynamically cache data generated from IoT devices and forward this data to MEC servers that participate in a private blockchain network. Our simulated experiments demonstrate the flexibility of the task offloading process through the proposed architecture, which can provide greater visibility of MEC service providers involved in processing users' data.
- Subjects :
- QA75
Mobile edge computing
Computer Networks and Communications
business.industry
computer.internet_protocol
Computer science
020206 networking & telecommunications
Cloud computing
02 engineering and technology
Service-oriented architecture
Service provider
QA76
Mobile Edge Computing, Drone, Blockchain, Task Offloading
Audit trail
Hardware and Architecture
Server
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Cache
business
computer
Software
Edge computing
Information Systems
Computer network
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1558156X and 08908044
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Network
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....35f90fa9881fd77bd7f4c020b9149ca2