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In cloud networking users may want to control where their virtual resources are stored or processed, e.g., only in western Europe and not in the US. Cloud networking is the combined management of cloud computing and network infrastructures of different providers and enables dynamic and flexible placement of virtual resources in this distributed environment. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for verifying the geographic location of a virtual resource. Our approach uses Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) to identify physical machines and a trusted authority which verifies the actual location. In addition, our approach enables the verification of the trustworthiness of the machine of the cloud operator.
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Krauß, C., Fusenig, V. (2013). Using Trusted Platform Modules for Location Assurance in Cloud Networking. In: Lopez, J., Huang, X., Sandhu, R. (eds) Network and System Security. NSS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38631-2_9
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