Trust-aware Cloudlet Federation Model for Secure Service Selection

Abstract

The introduction of Edge computing has pushed the horizon to the edge of the network and the user’s proximity. The openness of data on the edge raised many issues about the security of data. Although edge computing is an extension of the cloud, besides this, its solutions to handle security threats are different from cloud computing because of its architectural dissimilarities. There is a need for a comprehensive mechanism to ensure the choice of secure service. For this purpose, the combination of trust would be a better approach to deal with the service selection tasks in edge computing. In this paper, a trust-aware cloudlet federation model has been proposed which ultimately helps in the safe service selection of an edge node. Before using a service ‘A’ of any edge node, the trust value of the edge node for service ‘A’ should be calculated, called Service Trust Value (STV). Then the edge nodes with a higher STV for service ‘A’ are filtered. Lastly, the model will select the edge node with a satisfactory value of trust for service ‘A’. This proposed model will be beneficial in secure service selection.