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BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data storage services in mobile cloud environment

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For the last few years, academia and research organizations are continuously investigating and resolving the security and privacy issues of mobile cloud computing environment. The additional consideration in designing security services for mobile cloud computing environment should be the resource-constrained mobile devices. The execution of computationally intensive security services on mobile device consumes battery’s charging quickly. In this regard, the study presents a novel energy-efficient block-based sharing scheme that provides confidentiality and integrity services for mobile users in the cloud environment. The block-based sharing scheme is compared with the existing schemes on the basis of energy consumption, CPU utilization, memory utilization, encryption time, decryption time, and turnaround time. The experimental results show that the block-based sharing scheme consumes less energy, reduces the resources utilization, improves response time, and provides better security services to the mobile users in the presence of fully untrusted cloud server(s) as compared to the existing security schemes.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the financial support of the BrightSparks Program at University of Malaya, Malaysia for carrying out these research experiments.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Abdul Nasir Khan, M. L. Mat Kiah & Atta ur Rehman Khan

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

    Mazhar Ali

  3. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

    Abdul Nasir Khan & Sajjad A. Madani

  4. Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (IAUM), Mashhad, Iran

    Shahaboddin Shamshirband

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Khan, A.N., Kiah, M.L.M., Ali, M. et al. BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data storage services in mobile cloud environment. J Supercomput 70, 946–976 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-014-1269-8

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