Cloud-based mobile crowd-sourcing has been an attractive solution to provide data storage
and share services for resource-limited mobile devices in a privacy-preserving manner, but …

Data outsourcing has become an important application of cloud computing. Driven by the
growing security demands of data outsourcing applications, sensitive data have to be …

A significant amount of electronic health records (EHRs) have been kept in the cloud due to
the quick development of healthcare information systems. However, storing EHRs in the …

Outsourcing confidential data to cloud storage leads to privacy challenges that can be
reduced using encryption. However, with encryption in place, the utilization of the data is …

The advantages of cloud computing encourage individuals and enterprises to outsource
their local data storage and computation to cloud server, however, data security and privacy …

In smart city, which integrates the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
including cloud computing and internet of things, all kinds of data collected by smart devices …

Searchable public key encryption (SPE) that supports multi-keywords search, allows data
users to retrieve encrypted files of interest efficiently, and thus it has been intensively studied …

Due to the high demands of searchability over encrypted data, searchable encryption (SE)
has recently received considerable attention and been widely suggested in encrypted cloud …

Scientific research achievements play a positive role in the promotion of social development.
Scholarly big data include scholars' scientific research, experimental data, and their own …

Public key encryption scheme with keyword search (PEKS) enables us to search the
encrypted data in a cloud server with a keyword, and no one can obtain any information …