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A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust
Current mobile devices need to run applications with high computational demands and critical response times. The mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm was developed to improve the performance of these devices. This new computation architecture allows for the mobile devices to execute applications on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249043 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103211 |
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author | Mora-Gimeno, Francisco José Mora-Mora, Higinio Marcos-Jorquera, Diego Volckaert, Bruno |
author_facet | Mora-Gimeno, Francisco José Mora-Mora, Higinio Marcos-Jorquera, Diego Volckaert, Bruno |
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description | Current mobile devices need to run applications with high computational demands and critical response times. The mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm was developed to improve the performance of these devices. This new computation architecture allows for the mobile devices to execute applications on fog nodes at the network edge; this process is called data processing offloading. This article presents a security model for the externalization of application execution in multi-tier MEC environments. The principal novelty of this study is that the model is able to modify the required security level in each tier of the distributed architecture as a function of the degree of trust associated with that tier. The basic idea is that a higher degree of trust requires a lower level of security, and vice versa. A formal framework is introduced that represents the general environment of application execution in distributed MEC architectures. An architecture is proposed that allows for deployment of the model in production environments and is implemented for evaluation purposes. The results show that the security model can be applied in multi-tier MEC architectures and that the model produces a minimal overhead, especially for computationally intensive applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-62105982018-11-02 A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust Mora-Gimeno, Francisco José Mora-Mora, Higinio Marcos-Jorquera, Diego Volckaert, Bruno Sensors (Basel) Article Current mobile devices need to run applications with high computational demands and critical response times. The mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm was developed to improve the performance of these devices. This new computation architecture allows for the mobile devices to execute applications on fog nodes at the network edge; this process is called data processing offloading. This article presents a security model for the externalization of application execution in multi-tier MEC environments. The principal novelty of this study is that the model is able to modify the required security level in each tier of the distributed architecture as a function of the degree of trust associated with that tier. The basic idea is that a higher degree of trust requires a lower level of security, and vice versa. A formal framework is introduced that represents the general environment of application execution in distributed MEC architectures. An architecture is proposed that allows for deployment of the model in production environments and is implemented for evaluation purposes. The results show that the security model can be applied in multi-tier MEC architectures and that the model produces a minimal overhead, especially for computationally intensive applications. MDPI 2018-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6210598/ /pubmed/30249043 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103211 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mora-Gimeno, Francisco José Mora-Mora, Higinio Marcos-Jorquera, Diego Volckaert, Bruno A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title | A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title_full | A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title_fullStr | A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title_full_unstemmed | A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title_short | A Secure Multi-Tier Mobile Edge Computing Model for Data Processing Offloading Based on Degree of Trust |
title_sort | secure multi-tier mobile edge computing model for data processing offloading based on degree of trust |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6210598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30249043 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18103211 |
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