A Survey on Secure Deployment of Mobile Services in Edge Computing

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology that is recognized as a key to 5G networks. Because MEC provides an IT service environment and cloud-computing services at the edge of the mobile network, researchers hope to use MEC for secure service deployment, such as Internet of vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT), and autonomous vehicles. Because of the characteristics of MEC which do not have terminal servers, it tends to be deployed on the edge of networks. However, there are few related works that systematically introduce the deployment of MEC. Also, secure service deployment frameworks with MEC are even rare. For this reason, we have conducted a comprehensive and concrete survey of recent research studies on secure deployment. Although numerous research studies and experiments about MEC service deployment have been conducted, there are few systematic summaries that conclude basic concepts and development strategies about secure service deployment of commercial MEC. To make up for the gap, a detailed and complete survey about relative achievements is presented.