Providing secure and reliable communication for next generation networks in smart cities

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Sustainable Cities and Society

Publication Date

5-1-2020

Abstract

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Finding a framework that provides continuous, reliable, secure and sustainable diversified smart city services proves to be challenging in today's traditional cloud centralized solutions. This article envisions a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) solution that enables node collaboration among IoT devices to provide reliable and secure communication between devices and the fog layer on one hand, and the fog layer and the cloud layer on the other hand. The solution assumes that collaboration is determined based on nodes’ resource capabilities and cooperation willingness. Resource capabilities are defined using ontologies, while willingness to cooperate is described using a three-factor node criteria, namely: nature, attitude and awareness. A learning method is adopted to identify candidates for the service composition and delivery process. We show that the system does not require extensive training for services to be delivered correct and accurate. The proposed solution reduces the amount of unnecessary traffic flow to and from the edge, by relying on node-to-node communication protocols. Communication to the fog and cloud layers is used for more data and computing-extensive applications, hence, ensuring secure communication protocols to the cloud. Preliminary simulations are conducted to showcase the effectiveness of adapting the proposed framework to achieve smart city sustainability through service reliability and security. Results show that the proposed solution outperforms other semi-cooperative and non-cooperative service composition techniques in terms of efficient service delivery and composition delay, service hit ratio, and suspicious node identification.

ISSN

2210-6707

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Volume

56

First Page

102080

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Cloud, Fog, Next generation networks, Sustainable smart city

Scopus ID

85082940324

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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