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Blockchain-based cloudlet management for multimedia workflow in mobile cloud computing

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For the issue of users’ sensibility to the QoS (Quality of Service) of multimedia applications, cloudlet has emerged as a novel paradigm which provides closer computing resources to users to improve the performance of multimedia applications and meet the QoS demands of users. However, the increasing users’ requirements of migrating tasks pose a challenge to preserve the security and integrity of offloaded data which are processed by cloudlets. In view of this challenge, a blockchain-based cloudlet management method for multimedia workflow, named MWSM, is proposed in this paper. Technically, we first model each multimedia application as a multimedia workflow and formulate the multimedia workflow scheduling problem. Then, blockchain is adopted to secure the data integrity during the offloading procedure. Besides, NSGA-III (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III) is employed to realize the QoS enhancement and ELECTRE (Elimination Et Choix Tradulsant la REaltite) is utilized to solve the decision-making problems of the most optimal scheduling strategies. Finally, experimental evaluations are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and potential of our proposed scheduling method.

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Acknowledgment

This research is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under grant no. 61702277, no. 61872219 and no. 61772283. Besides, this work is also supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) fund, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET), and College Students’ Enterprise and Entreprenuership Education Program of NUIST, CSEEEP.

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  1. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xiaolong Xu & Yi Chen

  2. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xiaolong Xu

  3. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xiaolong Xu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Yuan Yuan

  5. School of Computer Science and Technology, Silicon Lake College, Suzhou, China

    Tao Huang

  6. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Xuyun Zhang

  7. School of Information Science and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China

    Lianyong Qi

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Xu, X., Chen, Y., Yuan, Y. et al. Blockchain-based cloudlet management for multimedia workflow in mobile cloud computing. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 9819–9844 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-07900-x

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