Title: Data Integrity Verification for Edge Computing: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Challenges

Abstract:

Edge computing enables application vendors to offload a wide range of services to distributed edge servers, providing low-latency access for data-intensive applications. However, data cached at edge servers is susceptible to both malicious tampering and unintentional corruption, making periodic edge data integrity verification (EDIV) essential. In this talk, we will first introduce the fundamentals and research background of EDIV. Then, we will explore the state-of-the-art progress on EDIV, including an overview of system framework and notable existing solutions, followed by showing the open research challenges in EDIV. Finally, we will expand from EDIV to edge model integrity verification (EMIV) and briefly discuss the open research challenges in EMIV.

Short Bio:

Yong Xiang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Professor at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include cybersecurity and privacy, machine learning & AI, distributed computing, and communications engineering. He has published 7 authored books, over 310 journal articles, and over 130 conference papers in these areas. Professor Xiang is the Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and Computer Standards and Interfaces. He was the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Associate Editor of IEEE Access, and served as Guest Editor for several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Multimedia, etc. He has served as Honorary Chair, General Chair, Program Chair, TPC Chair, Symposium Chair, Track Chair, and Publicity Chair for many conferences, and was invited to give keynotes at numerous conferences.