| CPC H04W 84/18 (2013.01) [H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] | 27 Claims |

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1. An apparatus comprising:
interface circuitry;
machine-readable instructions; and
at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to:
identify a cluster head during an authentication attempt; and
perform an intra-cluster mobile edge platform (MEP) mutual authentication with the cluster head by (a) causing transmission of historical connectivity data to at least one MEP corresponding to the cluster head and (b) causing storage of an authentication metric in a secure storage, the authentication metric based on the historical connectivity data satisfying a threshold connection success rate.
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