Secure and Trustworthy Task Offloading in Mobile Cloud
Abstract
As a promising combination of mobile technology and cloud computing, mobile cloud has been analyzed and treated as an effective way to off-load some of the heavy workloads from mobile devices. The most recent progress in this area is to construct a small ad-hoc cloud environment located close to the mobile user. The key benefit for such design is that its applicable even when no Internet connection is available. Existing off-loading algorithms for mobile cloud have taken comprehensive considerations on computation capacities, communication latency, and even available battery life on mobile devices. However, in mobile cloud environment, the performance-related factors are not sufficient to characterize the dominant concerns in off-loading. In this paper, we propose a new approach to establish trust in mobile cloud. It creates temporary groups without revealing group member information to any network participant. Compared to traditional group key management schemes, this method provides anonymity protection for group members based on Attribute Based Encryption(ABE) algorithm. Furthermore, we develop a novel task off-loading decision algorithm with trustfactors, which, according to our knowledge, is the first of such a kind. With the proposed approach, the trust relationship between mobile devices is incorporated into off-loading decisions, making it more practical in real-world application scenarios.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1187552
Entities
People
- Bing Li
- Bo Li
- Dijiang Huang
- Weiping Peng
Organizations
- Arizona State University