NOMA-Based Pervasive Edge Computing: Secure Power Allocation for IoV

Nowadays, intelligent transportation industry is becoming a hot spot in Internet of vehicles (IoV). However, owing to the existence of numerous intelligent terminals, communication security becomes a pressing problem. On the other hand, pervasive edge computing (PEC), as a pivotal technology, can significantly improve the performance of the system compared to the traditional cloud computing. In this article, we propose a nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based PEC power allocation framework in IoV, aiming at minimizing the system latency in the presence of eavesdroppers. Besides, queuing models, imperfect channel state information, and vehicles' speeds are all considered. Since the formulated problem is complicated, we consider its lower bound and derive the suboptimal closed-form expressions of the power allocation coefficients. Furthermore, a Frank-and-Wold algorithm is proposed to achieve the optimum total power. Simulation results illustrate the superior performance of the proposed NOMA scheme.