Today's Cloud Computing Research Articles

Survey of Secure Data Access Control Models in Cloud computing for EHR

Today cloud computing is the first choice of many individuals and different organizations. Computing services offered by different CSP’s are available as per need and the requirement. Most of the healthcare organizations are using cloud services for transmitting, storing and processing electronic health records (EHR) of patients. Patient’s health record is sensitive and there is possibility of violation of privacy by CSP’s. Data access control is one of the best mechanisms to address security issues in cloud computing and ensure the safety, reliability of the system and privacy of the user data. Existing surveys on access control mechanisms in cloud computing focus on all traditional centralized models. However, decentralized access models like block chain with traditional access control model is also used now days for ensuring privacy of EHR. This paper takes the detailed of reviews such existing access control mechanisms in cloud computing, based both types of access control models. Also provides comparisons on each model’s advantages and limitations, and discusses the challenges of, and future research direction for access control.

An Evolutionary Review on Resource Scheduling Algorithms Used for Cloud Computing with IoT Network

Abstract: The goal of the distributed computing paradigm known as "cloud computing," which necessitates a large number of resources and demands, is to share the resources as services delivered over the internet. Task scheduling is a very significant stage in today's cloud computing. While lowering the makespan and cost, the task scheduling method must schedule the tasks to the virtual machines. Various academics have proposed many scheduling methods for organizing work in cloud computing environments. Scheduling has been considered the most important for cloud computing since it might directly impact a system's performance, including the efficiency of resource utilization and running costs. This paper has compared all the already used algorithms that work on different parameters. We have tried to give better solutions for resource allocation and resource scheduling. In this study, various swarm optimization, evolutionary, physical, evolving, and fusion meta-heuristic scheduling methods are categorized according to the environment of the scheduling problem, the main scheduling goal, the task-resource mapping pattern, and the scheduling constraint. More specifically, the fundamental concepts of cloud task scheduling are addressed without difficulty.

Importance of Security in Big Data Log Files on Cloud

Today cloud computing is a very popular technology, and many people use this technology in many ways. it's important to have it safe. This technology was primarily used to keep data safer and safer in the cloud, so in this article we suggest a security framework for large data logs in the cloud. There are many and many risks that threaten the integrity of this information in the great information. Therefore, in line with the development of technology, the level of security has also increased significantly over the years. Various technology techniques access several online activities, such as interaction with different internet sites and services, making the web more accessible to their plug-ins. As a result, these activities have created a global platform for malicious activities to add these devices that expose large data logs harmful attacks. Sky system is an online platform that requires proper security integration. In addition, the current state of online security threatens high data in the cloud, which has affected the performance and service model.

ETPM: A Trusted Cloud Platform Enclave TPM Scheme Based on Intel SGX Technology

Today cloud computing is widely used in various industries. While benefiting from the services provided by the cloud, users are also faced with some security issues, such as information leakage and data tampering. Utilizing trusted computing technology to enhance the security mechanism, defined as trusted cloud, has become a hot research topic in cloud security. Currently, virtual TPM (vTPM) is commonly used in a trusted cloud to protect the integrity of the cloud environment. However, the existing vTPM scheme lacks protections of vTPM itself at a runtime environment. This paper proposed a novel scheme, which designed a new trusted cloud platform security component, ‘enclave TPM (eTPM)’ to protect cloud and employed Intel SGX to enhance the security of eTPM. The eTPM is a software component that emulates TPM functions which build trust and security in cloud and runs in ‘enclave’, an isolation memory zone introduced by SGX. eTPM can ensure its security at runtime, and protect the integrity of Virtual Machines (VM) according to user-specific policies. Finally, a prototype for the eTPM scheme was implemented, and experiment manifested its effectiveness, security, and availability.

GAME-SCORE: Game-based energy-aware cloud scheduler and simulator for computational clouds

Energy-awareness remains one of the main concerns for today's cloud computing (CC) operators. The optimisation of energy consumption in both cloud computational clusters and computing servers is usually related to scheduling problems. The definition of an optimal scheduling policy which does not negatively impact to system performance and task completion time is still challenging. In this work, we present a new simulation tool for cloud computing, GAME-SCORE, which implements a scheduling model based on the Stackelberg game. This game presents two main players: a) the scheduler and b) the energy-efficiency agent. We used the GAME-SCORE simulator to analyse the efficiency of the proposed game-based scheduling model. The obtained results show that the Stackelberg cloud scheduler performs better than static energy-optimisation strategies and can achieve a fair balance between low energy consumption and short makespan in a very short time.

A feasible solution to provide cloud computing over optical networks

Cloud computing provides a whole new way to store, access, and exchange information, and introduces new service patterns and business opportunities for network providers and enterprises. Due to the expensive intercommunication among data centers, the difficulty of managing diverse backups, and the cost of operating several data centers, cloud resources are mostly limited to centralized architectures. However, achieving low latency and guaranteeing end-to-end performance are two main challenges in today's cloud computing. Meanwhile, PON-based broadband access networks have been widely considered as one of the most promising solutions for the future telecom access platform that supports residential, enterprise, and mobile backhaul services. The latest research has achieved terabit symmetric capacity that can support up to 800 ONUs at gigabit rates. Therefore, deploying cloud services based on PON access networks provides flexibility in moving services closer to customers so as to ensure low latency and guarantee quality of experience for customers. In this article, we propose, by incorporating PON OLT and ONU physical resources, an infrastructure as a service architecture that enables the delivery of cloud services to end users over PON access networks.

Augmented Intelligence

Douglas Engelbart, J.C.R. Licklider, DARPA, augmented human intellect, Google Glass, and silicon sapience: what a fascinating amalgam of leaders, devices, and concepts! With today's cloud computing and with the legacy of giants like Engelbart and Licklider, we are at the beginning of a new age in machine intelligence that could result in a remarkable partnership between computers and humans, reinforcing the strengths of both.

Quickly Home Please: How Connected Vehicles Are Revolutionizing Road Transportation

Connected vehicles and driverless cars are bringing an end to road transportation as we know it today. Autonomous cars will gain access to other vehicles' sensors; advanced navigation systems will enable greener and more efficient driving; and cars will form dynamic clouds, enabling a new generation of on-demand services in the fashion of today's cloud computing. Here, the author takes a glimpse at the road ahead.