Cloud Network Research Articles

Public attitudes toward cloud computing and willingness to share personal health records (PHRs) and genome data for health care research in Japan

Japan’s government aims to promote the linkage of medical records, including medical genomic testing data and personal health records (PHRs), via cloud computing (the cloud). However, linking national medical records and using them for health care research can be controversial. Additionally, many ethical issues with using cloud networks with health care and genome data have been noted. However, no research has yet explored the Japanese public’s opinions about their PHRs, including genome data, being shared for health care research or the use of the cloud for storing and analyzing such data. Therefore, we conducted a survey in March 2021 to clarify the public’s attitudes toward sharing their PHRs, including genome data and using the cloud for health care research. We analyzed data to experimentally create digital health basic literacy scores (BLSs). Our results showed that the Japanese public had concerns about data sharing that overlapped with structural cloud computing issues. The effect of incentives on changes in participants’ willingness to share data (WTSD) was limited. Instead, there could be a correlation between WTSD and BLSs. Finally, we argue that it is vital to consider not only researchers but also research participants as value cocreators in health care research conducted through the cloud to overcome both parties’ vulnerability.

Energy-Aware and Secure Task Offloading for Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Computing Systems

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) devices and their services and applications are gaining popularity and attracting considerable attention in different fields of our daily life. Nevertheless, most of these applications and services require more powerful computational resources and energy, and their limited battery capacity and processing power make it difficult to run them on a single device. Edge-Cloud Computing (ECC) is emerging as a new paradigm to cope with the challenges of these applications, which moves computing resources to the edge of the network and remote cloud, thereby alleviating the overhead through task offloading. Even though ECC offers substantial benefits for these devices, the limited bandwidth condition in the case of simultaneous offloading via the same channel with increasing data transmission of these applications has not been adequately addressed. Moreover, protecting the data through transmission remains a significant concern that still needs to be addressed. Therefore, in this paper, to bypass the limited bandwidth and address the potential security threats challenge, a new compression, security, and energy-aware task offloading framework is proposed for the ECC system environment. Specifically, we first introduce an efficient layer of compression to smartly reduce the transmission data over the channel. In addition, to address the security issue, a new layer of security based on an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptographic technique is presented to protect offloaded and sensitive data from different vulnerabilities. Subsequently, task offloading, data compression, and security are jointly formulated as a mixed integer problem whose objective is to reduce the overall energy of the system under latency constraints. Finally, simulation results reveal that our model is scalable and can cause a significant reduction in energy consumption (i.e., 19%, 18%, 21%, 14.5%, 13.1% and 12%) with respect to other benchmarks (i.e., local, edge, cloud and further benchmark models).

Intrusion Detection on AWS Cloud through Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithm

The network security and cloud environment have been playing vital roles in today’s era due to increased network data transmission, the cloud’s elasticity, pay as you go and global distributed resources. A recent survey for the cloud environment involving 300 organizations in North America with 500 or more employees who had spent a minimum of USD 1 million on cloud infrastructure, as per March 2022 statistics, stated that 79% of organizations experienced at least one cloud data breach. In the year 2022, the AWS cloud provider leads the market share with 34% and a USD 200 billion cloud market, proving important and producing the motivation to improve the detection of intrusion with respect to network security on the basis of the AWS cloud dataset. The chosen CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 dataset had network attack details based on the real time attack carried out on the AWS cloud infrastructure. The proposed method here is the hybrid deep learning based approach, which uses the raw data first to do the pre-processing and then for normalization. The normalized data have been feature extracted from seventy-six fields to seven bottlenecks using Principal Component Analysis (PCA); those seven extracted features of every packet have been categorized as two-way soft-clustered (attack and non-attack) using the Smart Monkey Optimized Fuzzy C-Means algorithm (SMO-FCM). The attack cluster data have been further provided as inputs for the deep learning based AutoEncoder algorithm, which provides the outputs as attack classifications. Finally, the accuracy of the results in intrusion detection using the proposed technique (PCA + SMO-FCM + AE) is achieved as 95% over the CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 dataset, which is the highest known for state-of-the-art protocols compared with 11 existing techniques.

Correlation Anomaly Detection With Multiple Primary Attributes in Collaborative Device–Edge–Cloud Network

Anomaly detection is playing an increasingly important role in Internet of Things applications since anomalous events may cause some damage to the physical–social environment monitored by different kinds of smart object devices. In some cases, the occurrence of an anomalous event is caused by the fusion impact derived from several primary monitoring factors. Considering this, we propose a novel anomaly detection mechanism for the events with multiple decisive primary attributes in a collaborative device–edge–cloud architecture, in which a propagation and influence-based correlation is further explored in the edge layer for improving the detection efficiency. During the detection process, multiple primary attributes first cooperate to detect an anomaly in the edge layer in advance. If an anomaly occurs in the subregion managed by an edge device, social-aware interaction relationships between edge devices are further integrated to give a guidance on the detection of correlative anomaly in neighbor subregions. The cloud further analyzes the primary attributes information and the interaction relationship to determine the secondary attributes that are helpful in identifying the final anomaly. A large number of experiments show that our method is superior to the alternative methods in terms of energy consumption, detection time, and accuracy.

An Intelligent Task Scheduling Model for Hybrid Internet of Things and Cloud Environment for Big Data Applications

One of the most significant issues in Internet of Things (IoT) cloud computing is scheduling tasks. Recent developments in IoT-based technologies have led to a meteoric rise in the demand for cloud storage. In order to load the IoT services onto cloud resources efficiently even while satisfying the requirements of the applications, sophisticated planning methodologies are required. This is important because several processes must be well prepared on different virtual machines to maximize resource usage and minimize waiting times. Different IoT application tasks can be difficult to schedule in a cloud-based computing architecture due to the heterogeneous features of IoT. With the rise in IoT sensors and the need to access information quickly and reliably, fog cloud computing is proposed for the integration of fog and cloud networks to meet these demands. One of the most important necessities in a fog cloud setting is efficient task scheduling, as this can help to lessen the time it takes for data to be processed and improve QoS (quality of service). The overall processing time of IoT programs should be kept as short as possible by effectively planning and managing their workloads, taking into account limitations such as task scheduling. Finding the ideal approach is challenging, especially for big data systems, because task scheduling is a complex issue. This research provides a Deep Learning Algorithm for Big data Task Scheduling System (DLA-BDTSS) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing applications. When it comes to reducing energy costs and end-to-end delay, an optimized scheduling model based on deep learning is used to analyze and process various tasks. The method employs a multi-objective strategy to shorten the makespan and maximize resource consumption. A regional exploration search technique improves the optimization algorithm’s capacity to exploit data and avoid becoming stuck in local optimization. DLA-BDTSS was compared to other well-known task allocation methods in accurate trace information and the CloudSim tools. The investigation showed that DLA-BDTSS performed better than other well-known algorithms. It converged faster than different approaches, making it beneficial for big data task scheduling scenarios, and it obtained an 8.43 percent improvement in the outcomes. DLA-BDTSS obtained an 8.43% improvement in the outcomes with an execution time of 34 s and fitness value evaluation of 76.8%.

Securing and managing healthcare data generated by intelligent blockchain systems on cloud networks through DNA cryptography

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to ensure the anonymity and security of health data and improve the integrity and authenticity among patients, doctors and insurance providers. Simulation and validation algorithms are proposed in this work to ensure the proper implementation of the distributed system to secure and manage healthcare data. The author also aims to examine the methodology of Wireless Body Area Networks and how it contributes to the health monitoring system.Design/methodology/approachWireless Body Area Network (WBAN) plays an important role in patient health data monitoring. In this paper, a novel framework is designed and proposed to generate data by the sensor machines and be stored in the cloud, and the transactions can be secured by blockchain. DNA cryptography is used in the framework to encrypt the hashes of the blocks. The proposed framework will ensure the anonymity and security of the health data and improve the integrity and authenticity among the patients, doctors and insurance providers.FindingsCloud Computing and Distributed Networking have transformed the IT industry and their amalgamation with intelligent systems would revolutionize the Healthcare Industry. The data being generated by devices is huge and storing it in the cloud environment would be a better decision. However, the privacy and security of healthcare data are still a concern because medical data is very confidential and desires to be safe and secure. The blockchain is a promising distributed network that ensures the security aspect of the data and makes the transactions authentic and transparent. In this work, the data is collected using various sensor devices and is transmitted to the cloud through the WBAN via the blockchain network.Research limitations/implicationsIn this paper, a framework for securing and managing the healthcare data generated by intelligent systems is proposed. As the data generated by these devices are heterogeneous and huge in nature, the cloud environment is chosen for its storage and analysis. Therefore, the transactions to and from the cloud are secured by using the blockchain-based distributed network.Practical implicationsThe target end-users of our system are the patients to keep themselves informed and healthy, healthcare providers to monitor the conditions of their patients virtually, and the health insurance providers to have a track of the history of the patients, so that no fraudulent claims can be made.Originality/valueThe target end-users of our system are the patients for keeping themselves informed and healthy, healthcare providers for monitoring the conditions of their patients virtually and the health insurance providers to have a track of the history of the patients, so that no fraudulent claims can be made.

Research on the implementation status and improvement strategies of cloud classroom personality teaching in elementary schools

Currently, the development of students' personality and the cultivation of innovative talents are regarded as an important task of education for each country, the personalized teaching has become the goal of the new curriculum reform in China. With the continuous development of cloud computing technology, network cloud platform education resources are being used more and more in the teaching process, the " personalized teaching of the cloud classroom" in primary schools has gradually become the highlight for the reform and research of the basic education in Nanjing. Since it was officially launched in 2010, Nanjing has 1380 high-quality courses in the cloud classroom, trained 775 backbone teachers, explored new teaching models, accumulated a wealth of teaching cases. At the same time, in the implementation process, it also faces many problems and challenges related to educational concept, technology and application. This study use the literature design and case study method to define the relevant conceptss in analyze the teaching. The result of this study shown that the use of cloud classroom teaching can provide teachers visual expression tools for the smooth implementation of teaching, reduce the teaching burden of teachers, and provide students with a teaching environment rich in pictures and texts, stimulate learning interest and improve learning efficiency.

Evidence in the fog – Triage in fog computing systems

Fog computing promises improved service scalability and lower latency for IoT systems. The concept closes the gap between full computing capabilities at the network's edge and cloud systems' centrally located processing infrastructure. The drawback of the former is the high power requirements at the edge nodes, and the latter is the high latency for the data being transmitted from the edge to the cloud and back. One of the challenges for a digital forensic investigator facing a fog is the number of possible data locations, as the node functioning as the server processing data can be selected among several nodes in the network. An investigator typically has limited resources for an investigation; the more possible evidence locations, the more resources are required to collect and examine the data locations. A triage is thus needed to prioritize collecting and examining the evidence. This work analyzes measures that can identify which fog nodes are more likely to contain data, and it uses simulations to test the measures' precision and sensitivity. It aims for digital forensic investigators to maximize the utility of the available investigation resources, such that all relevant evidence is found on time.

Enhancing Network Performance Tomography in Software-Defined Cloud Network

For cloud network performance profiling, network tomography based on end-to-end measurement is often used in deducing the network performance for its efficiency. However, most tomography problems are under-constrained, which require additional assumptions or probing monitors planted among network switches, which are often unavailable in software-defined networking (SDN) environment. On the other hand, SDN-based flow mirroring could provide accurate flow information, but the cost of both gathering and analysing the packet traces is tremendous that it is impossible to cover the whole network. We propose ScoutFlow, a method combining SDN flow measurement and end-to-end performance tomography, to achieve accurate performance profiling for cloud network while keeping low monitoring overhead. We evaluate ScoutFlow in our campus data center cloud, and the experiment shows good scalability and accuracy.

A High-Performantal and Server-Centric Based Data Center Network

With the increasing demand of data center interconnection in the network cloud era, data center networks (DCNs) play key roles in computing and communication, becoming the center of a great deal of resources and business. Therefore, how to design a DCN with good performance has been a significant issue in networks. The hypercube is a popular interconnection network topology with low diameter, symmetry and recursive structure, and scalability. As a variant of the hypercube, the crossed cube not only retains the excellent properties of the hypercube, but also performs better in terms of Hamiltonian-connectivity, embeddability, diameter, etc. In this paper, we first propose a novel and server-centric DCN, called CSDC, which is based on the crossed cube network. The performance of CSDC can be characterized by the properties of its logical structure, so we then give its logical structure <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}$</tex-math></inline-formula> , and determine the connectivity and edge-connectivity of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}$</tex-math></inline-formula> . Furthermore, we explore the fault-tolerant paths and disjoint paths between any two distinct nodes in <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}$</tex-math></inline-formula> , and obtain the diameter of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}$</tex-math></inline-formula> . Moreover, we propose a method to construct two completely independent spanning trees (CISTs) in <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$C_{n}$</tex-math></inline-formula> . Extensive evaluations demonstrate that CSDC is a magnetic DCN for building large-scale data centers.

Efficient and secure content-based image retrieval with deep neural networks in the mobile cloud computing

Smart devices offer a variety of more convenient forms to help us record our lives and generate a large amount of data in this process. Limited by the local storage capacity, many users outsource their image data directly to the cloud server. However, images stored in plaintext on the cloud server are very insecure, resulting in image privacy information can be easily leaked. Therefore, users will encrypt the images and outsource them to the cloud server, but the encrypted images cannot be retrieved. Therefore, we proposed a secure and efficient ciphertext image retrieval scheme based on image content retrieval (CBIR) and approximate homomorphic encryption (HE). First, we used approximate homomorphic encryption to encrypt images after resizing and uploaded the ciphertext images to the cloud for feature extraction of ciphertext. At the same time, the large images (size, dimension, and resolution) would generate data inflation after using homomorphic encryption. Therefore, the original images are encrypted using the chaotic image encryption scheme to reduce ciphertext size and computation costs. Second, we proposed two deepening network depth optimization strategies that address the problem of insufficient neural network depth. Finally, reducing the dimensionality of the ciphertext feature vector using locally sensitive hashing (LSH) can accelerate the retrieval of ciphertext images. Compared with other literature, our ciphertext image retrieval scheme can significantly reduce the rounds of user-server communication.

Correction to: FPSO-GA: A Fuzzy Metaheuristic Load Balancing Algorithm to Reduce Energy Consumption in Cloud Networks

Correction to: FPSO-GA: A Fuzzy Metaheuristic Load Balancing Algorithm to Reduce Energy Consumption in Cloud Networks

Real-Time Reliability Access Control Based on Rail Traffic Data Platform

With the introduction of the industrial internet, Internet of Things, and big data technology, the interconnection degree of the industrial control cloud network is getting higher and higher, the data interface needs to be gradually standardized, and there are more and more open interface components. Data-based attacks will continue to emerge. The real-time and reliability of access control are essential for trust value updating between network participants. This paper proposes a fine-grained dynamic real-time credibility access control method based on zero trust. Continuous authentication and trust evaluation should be carried out throughout the access control process. The zero-trust evaluation indicators of a rail transit data platform that conforms to the requirements of grade protection 2.0 are established. According to the risk feedback, the current trust level is dynamically updated in real time, and the results are used in the access control model. It can reject unauthorized access, reduce the occurrence of illegal intrusion data leakage and data loss events, and has great value in rail transit data security.

Kernel-based feature aggregation framework in point cloud networks

Various effective deep networks have been developed for analysis of 3D point clouds. One key step in these networks is to aggregate the features of orderless points into a compact representation for the cloud. As a typical order-invariant aggregation method, max-pooling has been widely applied. However, while enjoying simplicity and high efficiency, max-pooling does not fully exploit the feature information since it not only ignores the non-maximum elements in each feature dimension but also neglects the interactions between different dimensions. These drawbacks of max-pooling motivate us to explore advanced feature aggregation methods for 3D point cloud analysis. The desired advanced method should be capable of modeling richer information between the point features than max-pooling, and, at the same time, it can readily replace max-pooling without the need to modify other parts of the existing network architecture. To this end, this paper proposes a novel kernel-based feature aggregation framework for 3D point cloud analysis for the first time. The proposed method effectively considers all the elements in each dimension and models the nonlinear interactions between feature dimensions as complementary information to max-pooling. In addition, it is a plug-in module that can be integrated to many common networks as a replacement of max-pooling. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the consistently superior performance and high generality of the proposed method over max-pooling. Specifically, the proposed kernel-based feature aggregation framework consistently improves the max-pooling with three representative backbones of PointNet, DGCNN and PCT across four 3D point cloud based analysis tasks, including supervised 3D object classification, 3D part segmentation, indoor semantic segmentation and one additional unsupervised place retrieval task. Especially, it shows remarkable performance improvement over max-pooling in the unsupervised retrieval task, demonstrating its advantage in forming 3D point cloud representation.

State Estimation Models of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Battery Management System: Status, Challenges, and Future Trends

The state estimation technology of lithium-ion batteries is one of the core functions elements of the battery management system (BMS), and it is an academic hotspot related to the functionality and safety of the battery for electric vehicles. This paper comprehensively reviews the research status, technical challenges, and development trends of state estimation of lithium-ion batteries. First, the key issues and technical challenges of battery state estimation are summarized from three aspects of characteristics, models, and algorithms, and the technical challenges in state estimation are deeply analyzed. Second, four typical battery states (state of health, state of charge, state of energy, and state of power) and their joint estimation methods are reviewed, and feasible estimation frameworks are proposed, respectively. Finally, the development trends of state estimation are prospected. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud networking have further reshaped battery state estimation, bringing new methods to estimate the state of the battery under complex and extreme operating conditions. The research results provide a valuable reference for battery state estimation in the next-generation battery management system.

A hybrid cancer prediction based on multi-omics data and reinforcement learning state action reward state action (SARSA)

These days, the ratio of cancer diseases among patients has been growing day by day. Recently, many cancer cases have been reported in different clinical hospitals. Many machine learning algorithms have been suggested in the literature to predict cancer diseases with the same class types based on trained and test data. However, there are many research rooms available for further research. In this paper, the studies look into the different types of cancer by analyzing, classifying, and processing the multi-omics dataset in a fog cloud network. Based on SARSA on-policy and multi-omics workload learning, made possible by reinforcement learning, the study made new hybrid cancer detection schemes. It consists of different layers, such as clinical data collection via laboratories and tool processes (biopsy, colonoscopy, and mammography) at the distributed omics-based clinics in the network. The study considers the different cancer classes such as carcinomas, sarcomas, leukemias, and lymphomas with their types in work and processes them using the multi-omics distributed clinics in work. In order to solve the problem, the study presents omics cancer workload reinforcement learning state action reward state action “SARSA” (OCWLS) schemes, which are made up of an on-policy learning scheme on different parameters like states, actions, timestamps, reward, accuracy, and processing time constraints. The goal is to process multiple cancer classes and workload feature matching while reducing the time it takes to process in clinical hospitals that are spread out. Simulation results show that OCWLS is better than other machine learning methods regarding+ processing time, extracting features from multiple classes of cancer, and matching in the system.

Grid-Related Fine Action Segmentation Based on an STCNN-MCM Joint Algorithm during Smart Grid Training

Smart grid-training systems enable trainers to achieve the high safety standards required for power operation. Effective methods for the rational segmentation of continuous fine actions can improve smart grid-training systems, which is of great significance to sustainable power-grid operation and the personal safety of operators. In this paper, a joint algorithm of a spatio-temporal convolutional neural network and multidimensional cloud model (STCNN-MCM) is proposed to complete the segmentation of fine actions during power operation. Firstly, the spatio-temporal convolutional neural network (STCNN) is used to extract action features from the multi-sensor dataset of hand actions during power operation and to predict the next moment’s action to form a multi-outcome dataset; then, a multidimensional cloud model (MCM) is designed based on the motion features of the real power operation; finally, the corresponding probabilities are obtained from the distribution of the predicted data in the cloud model through the multi-outcome dataset for action-rsegmentation point determination. The results show that STCNN-MCM can choose the segmentation points of fine actions in power operation in a relatively efficient way, improve the accuracy of action division, and can be used to improve smart grid-training systems for the segmentation of continuous fine actions in power operation.

Design security architecture for unmanned aerial vehicles by 5G cloud network based implementation of SDN with NFV and AI

A recent progression of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) augmentation its employments for different applications. It’s also vulnerable to being, stolen, lost, stray, or destroyed at status of a security infringements for the UAV network. The proposed strategy is defending against of different attacks through using artificial intelligence by implements five steps: RGSK, GCSCS, SEDC, HSSC, and FVNF. UAV authentication is happened in the first step through the Curve448. We performance deep reinforcement learning to run with GCS for packet assignment as it implemented for switch current state identification before updating. In our work we ability to alleviate for attack of flow table overloading by assigned of packets as an under loaded or idle switches. Then, selected the least loaded switch by applied 5 tuples. Hence, we divided SDN to SEDCs and HSSC forms. First in the SEDC we using Shannon entropy to achieve classified of input packet in to regular and suspicious packets. Last will forwarded regular packets to cloud layer. By growing multiple self-organizing maps for maintained in NFV that used to classify suspicious packets as classes normal or malicious packet. The proposed performance work evaluates using NS3.26 show up the better strategy to secure UAV for different attacks.

Pose classification using three-dimensional atomic structure-based neural networks applied to ion channel-ligand docking.

The identification of promising lead compounds showing pharmacological activities toward a biological target is essential in early stage drug discovery. With the recent increase in available small-molecule databases, virtual high-throughput screening using physics-based molecular docking has emerged as an essential tool in assisting fast and cost-efficient lead discovery and optimization. However, the best scored docking poses are often suboptimal, resulting in incorrect screening and chemical property calculation. We address the pose classification problem by leveraging data-driven machine learning approaches to identify correct docking poses from AutoDock Vina and Glide screens. To enable effective classification of docking poses, we present two convolutional neural network approaches: a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) and an attention-based point cloud network (PCN) trained on the PDBbind refined set. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed classifiers on multiple evaluation data sets including the standard PDBbind CASF-2016 benchmark data set and various compound libraries with structurally different protein targets including an ion channel data set extracted from Protein Data Bank (PDB) and an in-house KCa3.1 inhibitor data set. Our experiments show that excluding false positive docking poses using the proposed classifiers improves virtual high-throughput screening to identify novel molecules against each target protein compared to the initial screen based on the docking scores.

Performance comparison of cache replacement algorithms onvarious internet traffic

Internet users tend to skip and look for alternative websites if they have slow response times. For cloud network managers, implementing a caching strategy on the edge network can help lighten the workload of databases and application servers. The caching strategy is carried out by storing frequently accessed data objects in cache memory. Through this strategy, the speed of access to the same data becomes faster. Cache replacement is the main mechanism of the caching strategy. There are seven cache replacement algorithms with good performance that can be used, namely LRU, LFU, LFUDA, GDS, GDSF, SIZE, and FIFO. The algorithm is developed uniquely according to the internet traffic patterns encountered. Therefore, a particular cache replacement algorithm cannot be superior to other algorithms. This paper presents a performance comparison simulation of the seven cache replacement algorithms on various internet traffic extracted from the public IRcache dataset. The results of this study indicate that the hit ratio performance is strongly influenced by cache size, cacheable and unique requests. The smaller the unique request that occurs, the greater the hit ratio performance obtained. The LRU algorithm shows an excellent hit ratio performance to perform cache replacement work under normal internet conditions. However, when the access impulse phenomenon occurs, the GDSF algorithm is superior in obtaining hit ratios with limited cache memory capacity. The simulation results show that GDSF reaches a 50.75% hit ratio while LRU is only 49.17% when access anomalies occur.