ForDeen: Towards Formal Design for Ensuring Reliable UAV-Assisted Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Scenario-Based Approach

In this work, we focus on providing reliable design of UAV-assisted MEC systems via a formal way. Specifically, we are currently working on developing ForDeen, a formal framework that assures the reliability for MEC systems using a scenario-based synthesis approach. The framework will first construct a formal model to dynamically adjust the parameters of an UAV-assisted MEC system based on its state, environment, and objectives. To achieve this, we will adopt a combined approach of using Markov-chain Process and temporal logics to capture the behaviors and mission objectives of the target MEC systems. Typical scenarios such as data offloading will be modeled and integrated dynamically to generate the components whose behavior can be specified by a Markov chain. Our preliminary results have demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed framework via a case study.