Context-Awareness Enhances 5G Multi-Access Edge Computing Reliability
- The fifth-generation mobile telecommunication network is expected to support multi-access edge computing (MEC), which intends to distribute computation tasks and services from the central cloud to the edge clouds. Toward ultra-responsive, ultra-reliable, and ultra-low-latency MEC services, the current mobile network security architecture should enable a more decentralized approach for authentication and authorization processes. This paper proposes a novel decentralized authentication architecture that supports flexible and low-cost local authentication with the awareness of context information of network elements such as user equipment and virtual network functions. Based on a Markov model for backhaul link quality as well as a random walk mobility model with mixed mobility classes and traffic scenarios, numerical simulations have demonstrated that the proposed approach is able to achieve a flexible balance between the network operating cost and the MEC reliability.
Author: | Bin HanORCiD, Stan Wong, Christian Mannweiler, Marcos Rates CrippaORCiD, Hans D. SchottenORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-58021 |
ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
Parent Title (English): | IEEE Access |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Document Type: | Article |
Language of publication: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/02/08 |
Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2019/12/04 |
Issue: | 7 |
Page Number: | 10 |
Source: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8637933/authors#authors |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik |
DDC-Cassification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 621.3 Elektrotechnik, Elektronik |
Collections: | Open-Access-Publikationsfonds |
Licence (German): | Zweitveröffentlichung |