Resource Optimization of Secure Data Transmission for UAV-Relay Assisted Maritime MEC System

Abstract

The vigorous development of maritime networks and the explosive growth of maritime sampling data put forward more and more high demands on the computing and communication capability of maritime equipment. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), as the mobile relay device guarantees the capability by transferring part of the computing tasks of maritime equipment to carrying mobile edge computing (MEC) servers on land. However, the transmitting data of the UAV's communication channel can be easily intercepted due to the line of sight (LoS) feature, which brings the secure data transmission issue. To solve this issue, we propose a secure data transmission scheme in the UAV-relay assisted maritime MEC system. Specifically, a malicious UAV attempts to intercept the transmission data while another UAV helps forward the offloading computational data to the maritime surface users. A ground jammer transmits jamming signals with the object to block data intercepting. To maximize the users' minimum secure calculation capacity, we jointly optimize the transmit power of users and the relay UAV, the time slot allocation factor, and the UAV flight trajectory with block coordinate descent (BCD) and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. Numerical findings demonstrate that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the secure calculation capability of the system compared with four benchmark schemes.