Cloud storage service providers caters to the need of organizations and individuals by
allowing them to store, transfer and backup their ever-increasing amount of data at low cost …

Data deduplication has attracted many cloud service providers (CSPs) as a way to reduce
storage costs. Even though the general deduplication approach has been increasingly …

Since network storage services achieve widespread adoption, security and performance
issues are becoming primary concerns, affecting the scalability of storage systems …

Encrypting data on client-side before uploading it to a cloud storage is essential for
protecting users' privacy. However client-side encryption is at odds with the standard …

This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational
concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines a very …

Cloud computing offers a new way of service provision by re-arranging various resources
over the Internet. The most important and popular cloud service is data storage. In order to …

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been widely used in cloud computing where a data
provider outsources his/her encrypted data to a cloud service provider, and can share the …

The explosion in the volume of data generated by end-point devices, arising from IoT
proliferation, has lead to the adoption of data outsourcing to dedicated data centers …

Deduplication scheme based on convergent encryption (CE) is widely-used in cloud storage
system to eliminate redundant data. However, the adversaries can obtain the data by the …

Data deduplication technique has been widely adopted by commercial cloud storage
providers, which is both important and necessary in coping with the explosive growth of …