Paper Info
Title
Blockchain-Based Task Offloading in Drone-Aided Mobile Edge Computing
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/MNET.011.2000222
IEEE Network
Keywords
DocType
Volume
users,task offloading process,private blockchain network,MEC servers,automatically offloading user tasks,MEC service providers,MEC services,existing MEC scenarios,IoT devices,forwarding data,mobile edge computing services,cloud providers,drone-aided mobile edge computing,blockchain-based task offloading
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0890-8044
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuyun Luo120.38
Hang Li220.38
Zhenya Wen3276.88
Bin Qian420.38
Graham Morgan515019.15
Antonella Longo620.72
Omer Rana721.06
Rajiv Ranjan84747267.72