PMID- 30201933
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180912
LR  - 20181114
IS  - 1424-8220 (Electronic)
IS  - 1424-8220 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 9
DP  - 2018 Sep 10
TI  - An IoT-Oriented Offloading Method with Privacy Preservation for Cloudlet-Enabled 
      Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks.
LID - 10.3390/s18093030 [doi]
LID - 3030
AB  - With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, a vast amount of 
      the IoT data is generated by mobile applications from mobile devices. Cloudlets 
      provide a paradigm that allows the mobile applications and the generated IoT data 
      to be offloaded from the mobile devices to the cloudlets for processing and 
      storage through the access points (APs) in the Wireless Metropolitan Area 
      Networks (WMANs). Since most of the IoT data is relevant to personal privacy, it 
      is necessary to pay attention to data transmission security. However, it is still 
      a challenge to realize the goal of optimizing the data transmission time, energy 
      consumption and resource utilization with the privacy preservation considered for 
      the cloudlet-enabled WMAN. In this paper, an IoT-oriented offloading method, 
      named IOM, with privacy preservation is proposed to solve this problem. The 
      task-offloading strategy with privacy preservation in WMANs is analyzed and 
      modeled as a constrained multi-objective optimization problem. Then, the Dijkstra 
      algorithm is employed to evaluate the shortest path between APs in WMANs, and the 
      nondominated sorting differential evolution algorithm (NSDE) is adopted to 
      optimize the proposed multi-objective problem. Finally, the experimental results 
      demonstrate that the proposed method is both effective and efficient.
FAU - Xu, Zhanyang
AU  - Xu Z
AD  - School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and 
      Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. zhanyang_xu@nuist.edu.cn.
AD  - Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of 
      Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. 
      zhanyang_xu@nuist.edu.cn.
FAU - Gu, Renhao
AU  - Gu R
AD  - School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and 
      Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. renhaogu@gmail.com.
AD  - Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of 
      Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. renhaogu@gmail.com.
FAU - Huang, Tao
AU  - Huang T
AD  - School of Computer Science and Technology, Silicon Lake College, Suzhou 215332, 
      China. nuisthuangtao@163.com.
FAU - Xiang, Haolong
AU  - Xiang H
AD  - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, 
      Auckland 1023, New Zealand. hlx6700@gmail.com.
FAU - Zhang, Xuyun
AU  - Zhang X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7353-4159
AD  - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, 
      Auckland 1023, New Zealand. xuyun.zhang@auckland.ac.nz.
FAU - Qi, Lianyong
AU  - Qi L
AD  - School of Information Science and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao 
      276826, China. lianyongqi@gmail.com.
FAU - Xu, Xiaolong
AU  - Xu X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4879-9803
AD  - School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and 
      Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. njuxlxu@gmail.com.
AD  - Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of 
      Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. njuxlxu@gmail.com.
LA  - eng
GR  - 61702277, 61772283/National Science Foundation of China/
GR  - KFKT2017B04/The Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of NUIST/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180910
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Sensors (Basel)
JT  - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101204366
PMC - PMC6164151
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - IoT data
OT  - WMAN environment
OT  - cloudlet
OT  - privacy preservation
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the 
      design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in 
      the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2018/09/12 06:00
MHDA- 2018/09/12 06:01
PMCR- 2018/09/01
CRDT- 2018/09/12 06:00
PHST- 2018/08/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/09/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/09/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/09/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/09/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/09/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - s18093030 [pii]
AID - sensors-18-03030 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/s18093030 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sensors (Basel). 2018 Sep 10;18(9):3030. doi: 10.3390/s18093030.