Offloading Mode Hidden for Delay Sensitive Tasks in Edge Computing Networks

Edge computing has been developed to support local services with lower burden to the core network. However, privacy issues deteriorate when terminal users enjoy the high-quality services with the price of sending their data to multiple service nodes (SNs) scattered throughout the network. Existing researches concerning this problem are almost all based on the traditional security technologies including encryption and authentication, which are too complicated to be well supported by the terminal nodes (TNs) in edge networks due to the poor local processing capabilities. In view of the above, this article proposes an offloading mode hidden (OMH) algorithm, which reduces the risk level by equalizing the task offloading modes of different TNs. Gaming process is adopted to achieve the risk-minimized offloading solutions for TNs. Numerical results demonstrate that comparing with the Greedy algorithm, the proposed OMH algorithm can achieve lower task offloading risk with higher efficiency and provide more TNs with satisfied services.