Incentive-driven Edge Cooperation for Service Provision

Abstract

Edge co-operations around us are playing an increasingly crucial role in both personal and business activities, because they can bring us higher-quality services. However, more networks take part in an edge co-operation, more privacy protections the co-operation need to be supported to stimulate edge networks' participation. Edge co-operation has great potential in providing a high-performance, low-latency, and high-bandwidth service environment but requires strong incentives to stimulate more networks to participate in. To tackle this challenge, we design a novel privacy-preserving incentive mechanism (PIM) for edge co-operation at a fully distributed edge. The proposed mechanism allows the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to select suitable edge networks for service provision under a budget constraint while guaranteeing differential privacy, approximate truthfulness, computational efficiency, individual rationality. Through several simulations, we evaluate the performance and validate the properties of our mechanism.