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Record W4417292807 · doi:10.1186/s13677-025-00821-1

Security-aware computation offloading in internet of vehicles: a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm with attention mechanism

2025· article· en· W4417292807 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicIoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputation offloadingComputationTask (project management)Reinforcement learningEnergy consumptionLayer (electronics)Latency (audio)Feature (linguistics)Key (lock)Application layer

Abstract

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Limited by the finite computation resources in Internet of Vehicles (IoV), it is necessary to facilitate the capacity of vehicles using computation offloading. The traditional approaches focus on maximizing utilities of computation offloading while fail to take into consideration the security of offloading strategy, which cannot be used for IoV environments directly. In addition, unsafe strategies can cause interruptions in task offloading and waste computation resources. In view of this, this paper ensures secure task offloading by mitigating interruptions caused by communication constraints such as limited transmission distance. To this end, we propose a two-layer security-aware computation offloading framework and design a multi-agent proximal policy optimization algorithm with attention mechanism (named MAPPOAM) to address the aforementioned issue. More specifically, in the feature extraction layer, the attention mechanism is utilized to obtain the relationship between the communication time and movement data of the vehicles and extract the feature of data. In the security decision layer, the agents output the offloading strategy based on the observation information. Subsequently, the algorithm in the security constraint layer analyzes the relationship between the task execution time constraints and the extracted feature to evaluate the safety of this strategy. Eventually, the agent outputs a strategy that ensures secure completion of the offloading process. The experiments with the real dataset show that MAPPOAM can effectively ensure the security of decisions compare with other baseline methods and provide valuable practical applications. Specifically, MAPPOAM outperforms the baseline algorithms, reducing both latency and energy consumption by 17.5% to 63.1%. Additionally, the security decision layer contributes to a 60.4% reduction in offloading interruptions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.918
Threshold uncertainty score0.513

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it