2020/06/29 by Jinyue Song, Song, Jinyue, Tianbo Gu +5
Computer Science · #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Cryptography and Data Security #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.CR #cs.DC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.15824
8 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the 2020 Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2020)
arxiv created 2020/06/29 · openalex publication_date 2020/06/29 · arxiv updated 2020/06/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In recent years, there is an emerging trend that some computing services are moving from cloud to the edge of the networks. Compared to cloud computing, edge computing can provide services with faster response, lower expense, and more security. The massive idle computing resources closing to the edge also enhance the deployment of edge services. Instead of using cloud services from some primary providers, edge computing provides people with a great chance to actively join the market of computing resources. However, edge computing also has some critical impediments that we have to overcome. In this paper, we design an edge computing service platform that can receive and distribute the computing resources from the end-users in a decentralized way. Without centralized trade control, we propose a novel hierarchical smart contract-based decentralized technique to establish the trading trust among users and provide flexible smart contract interfaces to satisfy users. Our system also considers and resolves a variety of security and privacy challenges when utilizing the encryption and distributed access control mechanism. We implement our system and conduct extensive experiments to show the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed system.