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Title: Challenges in Securing the Interface Between the Cloud and Pervasive Systems

Abstract

Cloud computing presents an opportunity for pervasive systems to leverage computational and storage resources to accomplish tasks that would not normally be possible on such resource-constrained devices. Cloud computing can enable hardware designers to build lighter systems that last longer and are more mobile. Despite the advantages cloud computing offers to the designers of pervasive systems, there are some limitations of leveraging cloud computing that must be addressed. We take the position that cloud-based pervasive system must be secured holistically and discuss ways this might be accomplished. In this paper, we discuss a pervasive system utilizing cloud computing resources and issues that must be addressed in such a system. In this system, the user's mobile device cannot always have network access to leverage resources from the cloud, so it must make intelligent decisions about what data should be stored locally and what processes should be run locally. As a result of these decisions, the user becomes vulnerable to attacks while interfacing with the pervasive system.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. ORNL
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1004974
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1st IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Communities and Service Clouds, Seattle, WA, USA, 20110321, 20110321
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; SECURITY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT INTERFACES; VULNERABILITY; Security; Pervasive Computing; Cloud Computing; Mobile Computing

Citation Formats

Lagesse, Brent J. Challenges in Securing the Interface Between the Cloud and Pervasive Systems. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Lagesse, Brent J. Challenges in Securing the Interface Between the Cloud and Pervasive Systems. United States.
Lagesse, Brent J. 2011. "Challenges in Securing the Interface Between the Cloud and Pervasive Systems". United States.
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