Smart city is gradually forming a large scope of Internet of Things (IoT) networks with diffusely deployed IoT devices that produce quantities of services. Considering the large-scale and widely distributed features of IoT networks, edge computing is emerged as a powerful and suitable paradigm to provide computing abilities for the IoT devices at the edge of the networks. In edge computing, the IoT services could be placed on the edge computing units (ECUs) for execution, which provides low latency and eases the burden of bandwidth. However, it is still challenging to improve the overall ECU execution performance (i.e., the resource usage, the load balance levels, and the power consumption of ECUs) and meanwhile prevent privacy leakage of the IoT devices for service placement. To tackle this challenge, a trust-oriented IoT service placement method, abbreviated as TSP, is proposed for smart cities in edge computing. Technically, improving the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm (SPEA2) is leveraged to acquire the balanced placement strategies for the tradeoffs among the execution performance metrics with privacy preservation. Additionally, the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques are employed to identify the optimal placement strategy among the obtained service placement strategies. Eventually, systematic experiments are conducted to verify the efficiency and reliability of TSP.

Cloud computing is a formidable paradigm to provide resources for handling the services from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), such as meteorological industry. Generally, the meteorological services, with complex interdependent logics, are modeled as workflows. When any of the computing nodes for hosting the meteorological workflows fails, all sorts of consequences (e.g., data loss, makespan enlargement, performance degradation, etc.) could arise. Thus recovering the failed tasks as well as optimizing the makespan and the load balance of the computing nodes is still a critical challenge. To address this challenge, a dynamic resource provisioning method, named DRPM, with fault tolerance for the data-intensive meteorological workflows is proposed. Technically, the Virtual Layer 2 (VL2) network topology is exploited to build meteorological cloud infrastructure. Then, the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is employed to minimize the makespan and improve the load balance. Finally, comprehensive experimental analysis of DRPM are proceeded.

With the construction and development of smart cities, accurate and real-time traffic prediction plays a vital role in urban traffic. However, traffic data has the characteristics of non-linearity, non-stationary and complex structure, so traffic prediction has always been a challenging problem. The traditional statistical model is good at dealing with linear data and poor at dealing with nonlinear data. Although the ability to capture nonlinear data has improved, the deep learning approach has difficulty in meeting the real-time requirements of traffic prediction. To solve the above challenges, we propose a novel approach based on the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model (ARIMA) model and combining empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and singular value decomposition (SVD) technology, i.e., ESARIMA. This method first uses EMD to stabilize the traffic data, then uses SVD to compress data and reduce the noise, so as to improve the efficiency and accuracy of ARIMA model in predicting traffic flow. Finally, we use real datasets to verify the feasibility of ESARIMA. The experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-art baselines.

Benefiting from the powerful data analysis and prediction capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), the data on the edge is often transferred to the cloud center for centralized training to obtain an accurate model. To resist the risk of privacy leakage due to frequent data transmission between the edge and the cloud, federated learning (FL) is engaged in the edge paradigm, uploading the model updated on the edge server (ES) to the central server for aggregation, instead of transferring data directly. However, the adversarial ES can infer the update of other ESs from the aggregated model and the update may still expose some characteristics of data of other ESs. Besides, there is a certain probability that the entire aggregation is disrupted by the adversarial ESs through uploading a malicious update. In this article, a privacy-preserving FL scheme with robust aggregation in edge computing is proposed, named FL-RAEC. First, the hybrid privacy-preserving mechanism is constructed to preserve the integrity and privacy of the data uploaded by the ESs. For the robust model aggregation, a phased aggregation strategy is proposed. Specifically, anomaly detection based on autoencoder is performed while some ESs are selected for anonymous trust verification at the beginning. In the next stage, via multiple rounds of random verification, the trust score of each ES is assessed to identify the malicious participants. Eventually, FL-RAEC is evaluated in detail, depicting that FL-RAEC has strong robustness and high accuracy under different attacks.