Secrecy‐enabled resource allocation in cloud‐assisted IoT networks

Abstract

Summary Cloud‐assisted IoT networks, (Fog computing) provide computation‐intensive services to the edge devices like the Internet of Things (IoT) with limited resources. One of the urgent challenges in fog‐based IoT networks is how to fulfill the demanded network resources for connected IoT devices with secure communication. To provide robust solutions in this paper, we have proposed a secrecy‐enabled resource allocation scheme for cloud‐assisted IoT networks (fog networks). In this study, we have conceptualized a state‐of‐the‐art physical‐layer secure communication along with the network resource allocation scheme with the intention of providing on‐demand Quality of service (QoS) parameters along with increased secrecy rate in the cloud‐assisted IoT networks. To determine this we have formulated a coalition‐based game formation for the considered network. Different from previous work we include the secrecy in the physical layer by the proposed secracy‐enabled resource allocation scheme. Furthermore, we have conducted extensive simulations for analyzing the numerical results of the proposed scheme. The numerical result shows the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in terms of increased secrecy and data rate of the IoT devices.