Cloud Computing (CC) is an emerging
technology. Mobility is considered as a key technology in CC
that shifts from traditional PC to smartphones, tablets,
PDAs, etc. MobiCloud has arose as a subclass of CC to
empower rigorous on-demand elastic computing and storage
to the mobile users. As MobiCloud integrates CC with
mobile computing and networks, all the issues are inherited
while accessing the cloud services. Many researchers
proposed security mechanisms, but not as a complete
framework. The existing mechanisms could not perform well
due to issues like security, computation overhead and poor
accuracy. To overcome these problems, an IdM framework
is designed to authenticate and authorize user’s data access
in MobiCloud environment. The proposed IdM framework
incorporates three mechanisms namely Key Based Mutual
Authentication (KBMA), Pattern Based User
Authentication (PBUA) and Optimized Role Based User
Authorization (ORBUA). The three proposed mechanisms
are given as a single service called Identity as a Service
(IdaaS) by the CSPs. This MoClo-IdM framework can be
used by the small, medium and large scale service providers.
Published In:IJCSN Journal Volume 5, Issue 5
Date of Publication : October 2016
Pages : 782-785
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A. Cecil Donald : received his Master’s in Software Engineering from
Anna University, Chennai, India. He has one year experience in IT
industry as a Software Developer. Currently, he is a Doctoral
Research Scholar in Computer Science, St. Joseph’s College,
Tiruchirappalli affiliated to Bharathidasan University, India. His main
area of research is Mobile Cloud Computing. He has published 11
papers in the refereed International Journals and presented two
research papers in the International Conferences. He has attended
several national and international conferences and workshops.
Dr. L. Arockiam : is working as Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science, St. Joseph’s College,
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. He has 27 years of experience in
teaching and 19 years of experience in research. He has published
more than 285 research articles in the International & National
Conferences and Journals. He has also presented 3 research articles
in the Software Measurement European Forum in Rome, Bali and
Malaysia. He is also the Member of IEEE, Madras Section. He has
chaired many technical sessions and delivered invited talks in
National and International Conferences. He has Co-authored 5
books. His research interests are: Cloud Computing, Big Data,
Cognitive Aspects in Programming, Data Mining and Mobile
Networks. He has been awarded “Best Research Publications in
Science” for 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2015 and ASDF Global “Best
Academic Researcher” Award from ASDF, Pondicherry for the
academic year 2012-13 and also the “Best Teacher in College” award
for the year 2013 & 2014.
Mobile Cloud Computing, Security, Data Access,
Identity Management (IdM), Authentication
The Proposed Framework, MoClo-IdM is developed to
provide secure data access to the users in MobiCloud
environment. MoClo-IdM consists of three different
mechanisms, namely KBMA, PBUA and ORBUA. First
two mechanisms; KBMA and PBUA are to authenticate
the entities and the users respectively. Finally, ORBUA is
proposed to authorize effectively the user for accessing the
cloud resources. These three mechanisms are proposed to
prevent man-in-the-middle attack, masquerading attack,
password guessing attack and shoulder surfing attack.
This framework also reduces the complexity and waiting
time of the user. Further, incorporating game theoretic
techniques to identify cluster heads will also provide an
effective mechanism for identifying the best nodes.
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