Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) has gained increasing interest due to its potential to provide low latency and reduce the load in backhaul networks. In order to meet drastically increasing computation demands from emerging ever-growing vehicular applications, e.g., autonomous driving, abundant computation resources of individual vehicles can play a crucial role in task execution in a VEC scenario, that can further contribute in considerably improving user experience. This is however an extremely challenging task due to high mobility of vehicles that can easily lead to intermittent connectivity, thereby disrupting on-going task processing. In this paper, we propose a task offloading scheme by exploiting multi-hop vehicle computation resources in VEC based on mobility analysis of vehicles. In addition to the vehicles within one hop from the task vehicle that generates computation tasks, certain multi-hop vehicles that meet the given requirements in terms of link connectivity and computation capacity, are also leveraged to carry out the tasks offloaded by the task vehicle. An optimization problem is formulated for the task vehicle to minimize the weighted sum of execution time and computation cost of all tasks. A semidefinite relaxation approach with an adaptive adjustment procedure is proposed to solve the formulated optimization problem for obtaining the corresponding offloading decisions. The simulation results show that our proposed offloading scheme can achieve significant improvement in terms of response delay by at least 34% compared with the other algorithms (e.g., local processing and random offloading).

The mobile edge computing (MEC) technology can simultaneously provide high-speed computing services for multiple vehicular users (VUs) in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks. Nevertheless, due to the open feature of the wireless offloading channels and the high mobility of the vehicles, the security and stability of the offloading process would be seriously degraded. In this paper, by utilizing the physical layer security (PLS) technique and spectrum sharing architecture, we propose a deep reinforcement learning based joint secure offloading and resource allocation (SORA) scheme to improve the secrecy performance and resource efficiency of the multi-user VEC networks, where the VU offloading links share the frequency spectrum preoccupied with the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication links. We use Wyner’s wiretap coding scheme to obtain the achievable secrecy rate and guarantee that confidential information cannot be decoded by multiple mobile eavesdroppers. We aim at minimizing the system processing delay while securing the wireless offloading process, by jointly optimizing the transmit power, the frequency spectrum selection and the computation resource allocation. We formulate the optimization problem as a multi-agent collaborative optimal decision problem and solve it with a double deep Q-learning algorithm. Besides, we set a punishment mechanism for the rate degradation to guarantee the communication quality of each V2V link. Simulation results demonstrate that multiple VU agents adopting the SORA scheme can rapidly adapt to the highly dynamic VEC networks and cooperate to improve the system delay performance while increasing the secrecy probability.

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is enjoying a surge in research interest due to the remarkable potential to reduce response delay and alleviate bandwidth pressure. Facing the ever-growing service applications in VEC, how to effectively aggregate and flexibly schedule ubiquitous network resources for implementing diverse tasks and meeting differentiated demands from numerous vehicular users remains haunting. Toward this end, we investigate collaborative task computing and on-demand resource allocation. The collaborative computing framework in VEC is provided to support deep collaboration and intelligent management of heterogeneous resources widely distributed in vehicles, edge servers and cloud. Based on this framework, the joint optimization problem of distributed task offloading and multi-resource management is formulated with the aim to maximize the system utility by making the optimal task and resource scheduling policy, the novelty of which lies in the exploration of available vehicle resources and the consideration of service migration. In view of the dynamics, randomness and time-variant of vehicular networks, the asynchronous deep reinforcement algorithm is leveraged to find the optimal solution. Extensive simulation experiments are implemented to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed algorithm in terms of response latency compared with full offloading and random offloading.

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) plays a significant role in enabling diverse service applications by implementing efficient data sharing. However, the unique characteristics of MEC also bring data privacy and security problem, which impedes the development of MEC. Blockchain is viewed as a promising technology to guarantee the security and traceability of data sharing. Nonetheless, how to integrate blockchain into MEC system is quite challenging because of dynamic characteristics of channel conditions and network loads. To this end, we propose a secure data sharing scheme in blockchain-enabled MEC system using an asynchronous learning approach in this paper. First, a blockchain-enabled secure data sharing framework in MEC system is presented. Then, we present an adaptive privacy-preserving mechanism according to available system resources and privacy demands of users. Next, an optimization problem of secure data sharing is formulated in blockchain-enabled MEC system with the aim to maximize the system performance with respect to the decreased energy consumption of MEC system and the increased throughput of blockchain system. Specially, an asynchronous learning approach is employed to solve the formulated problem. Numerical results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed secure data sharing scheme when compared with some popular benchmark algorithms in terms of average throughput, average energy consumption and reward.

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recognized as a viable technology to satisfy low-delay computation requirements for resource-constrained Internet of things (IoT) devices. Nevertheless, the broadcast feature of wireless electromagnetic communications may lead to the security threats to IoT devices. In order to enhance the task offloading security, this paper proposes a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure MEC network framework. Furthermore, we investigate the max-min computation efficiency problem under the secure computation rate requirements, by jointly optimizing the local computing frequencies and transmission power of IoT devices, time-slot assignment, and phase beamforming of the RIS. To solve the formulated non-convex problem, we further develop an iterative algorithm, in which the Dinkelbach-type method and block coordinate descent (BCD) technique are utilized to tackle the fractional objective function and coupled optimization variables, respectively. In particular, the successive convex approximation (SCA) and penalty function-based methods are exploited to solve the transmit power control and reflecting beamforming optimization subproblems, respectively, and the closed-form expression for local computing frequencies optimization subproblem is derived. Numerical results quantify the performance gain achieved by the proposed RIS-assisted secure MEC networks, when compared to existing benchmark methods.