Secure D2Dcaching framework based on trust management and blockchain for mobile edge caching - a multi domain approach

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Acquila Santos
• Orientador(a): Borges, Vinicius da Cunha Martins
• Banca de defesa: Borges, Vinicius da Cunha Martins, Pinheiro, Billy Anderson, Cordeiro, Weverton Luis da Costa, Carvalho, Sérgio Teixeira de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação (INF)
• Departamento: Instituto de Informática - INF (RMG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: D2D caching; Gestão de confiança; Blockchain; Segurança; Redes 5G; Computação de borda móvel; Multi-domínio
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Trust management; Security; 5G networks; Mobile edge computing; Multi-domain
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/13092

Device–to-Device communication (D2D), combined with edge caching and mobile edge computing, is a promising approach that allows offloading data from the wireless mobile network. However, user security is still an open issue in D2D communication. Security vulnerabilities remain possible owing to easy, direct and spontaneous interactions between untrustworthy users and different degrees of mobility. This dissertation encompasses the designing of a multi-layer framework that combines diverse technologies inspired in blockchain to come up with a secure multi domain D2D caching framework. Regarding the intra-domain aspect we establish Secure D2D Caching framework inspired on trUst management and Blockchain (SeCDUB) to improve the security of D2D communication in video caching, through the combination of direct and indirect observations. In addition, blockchain concepts were adapted to the dynamic and restricted scenario of D2D networks to prevent data interception and alteration of indirect observations. This adaptation considered the development of a Clustering Approach (CA) that enables scalable and lightweight blockchain for D2D networks. Two different uncertainty mathematical models were used to infer direct and indirect trust values: Bayesian inference and the Theory Of Dempster Shafer (TDS) respectively. Regarding the inter-domain approach we developed Trust in Multiple Domains (TrustMD) framework. This approach combines edge trust storage with blockchain for distributed storage management in a multi layer architecture, designed to efficiently store trust control data in edge across different domains. Regarding the collected results, we performed simulations to test SecDUB’s intra-domain approach. The proposed clustering approach plays a key role to mitigate the SecDuB overhead as well as the consensus time. TrustMD results demonstrated a significant enhancement in goodput, reaching at best, 95% of the total network throughput, whicle SecDUB achieved approximately 80%. Even though there was a 7% increase in D2D overhead, TrustMD effectively keep control of latency levels, resulting in a slight decrease of 1.3 seconds. Hence, the achieved results indicates that TrustMD efficiently manages securitywithout compromising network performance reducing false negative rate up to 31% on the best case scenario. Actually, the combination of SecDUB and TrustMD offers a scalable and effective security solution that boosts network performance and ensures robust protection.