Abstract. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged to place part of the cloud resources closer to the edge of the network to increase performance and provide context-dependent data analysis and storage. However, as MEC infrastructures grow, different parties become involved in delivering services, which poses different trust challenges. MEC infrastructures, and all involved parties need to be subject to identity and provenance checks, in order to increase trust and accountability. In this context, we investigate blockchain-based architectures to track identities and provenance of all orchestration decisions in a MEC infrastructure.


Speaker:  Nabil El Ioini, PhD., Free University of Bozen-Bolzano