An Efficient Cyber Defense Framework for UAV-Edge Computing Network

Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is usually deployed in energy and delay constrained networks, such as internet of things networks and transportation systems to address the issues of energy consumption, computation capacity and network delay. In this work, we focus on a special case, which is Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Edge Computing (UEC) network. Addressing the security issues in UAV-Edge Computing network is mandatory due to the criticality of UEC services, such as network traffic monitoring, or search and rescue operations. However, cyber defense and protection of UEC network have not yet received sufficient research attention. Thereby, we propose and develop a cyber defense solution based on a non-cooperative game to protect the UEC from network and offloading attacks, while taking into account nodes’ energy constraints and computation overhead. Simulation results show that, the deployment of our cyber defense system in UEC network requires low energy consumption and low computation overhead to obtain a high protection rate.