R. Manoj, A. Alsadoon, P. Prasad, N. Costadopoulos, Salih Ali
{"title":"Hybrid Secure and Scalable Electronic Health Record Sharing in Hybrid Cloud","authors":"R. Manoj, A. Alsadoon, P. Prasad, N. Costadopoulos, Salih Ali","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.38","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has become an integral part of theoperation of health. However, there are major security andprivacy issues in terms of accessing medical records from thehybrid cloud environment. In this paper, a new secure hybridElectronic Health Record system is proposed. In this framework, two efficient encryption methods are combined for fine grainedaccess control and protection of data privacy. Multi-authority andKey-based encryption schemes are used for the encryption of eachpart of health records after dividing those records using a verticalpartitioning method. Multi-authority encryption schemes areprimarily used in the Public Domains (PUDs), while Key-basedencryption schemes are prevalent in Personal Domains (PSDs). Together, they provide, secure data access and authentication ofusers. Implementation is facilitated using Windows Azure CloudComputing platform.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126913645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HVC: A Hybrid Cloud Computing Framework in Vehicular Environments","authors":"Jingyun Feng, Zhi Liu, Celimuge Wu, Yusheng Ji","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.9","url":null,"abstract":"As increasingly more applications are deployed in vehicles, how to provide the demanded computational capability becomes crucial. This paper proposes the hybrid vehicular cloud (HVC) framework for cloud computing on the road to increase the computational capability of vehicles by using resources from the centralized cloud, RSU, and neighboring vehicles. The proposed scheme can be used as a general framework for all types of applications. It is able to satisfy various types of job requirements, such as real time or host requirements, and it is adaptive to the dynamic vehicular environment. Specifically, this paper defines the procedures to support the autonomous organization of a vehicular cloud. An online scheduling algorithm is proposed to solve the job assignment problem with the objective of processing more jobs and reducing cellular network usage. Extensive simulations are conducted, and the results show the superiority of the proposed scheme over competing schemes in typical urban scenarios.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125818799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Fault-Tolerance and Mobility Provisioning for Services on Mobile Cloud Platforms","authors":"P. Stahl, Jonatan Broberg, B. Landfeldt","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.7","url":null,"abstract":"We present the implementation of a platform for providing mobility and reliability to computational tasks that are executed in the access cloud. The platform is primarily aimed at providing an experimental tool for further studying of sophisticated techniques for task scheduling, placement and migration policies. In its current form, the platform supports streaming services but can be extended with support for synchronisation between computational tasks. The implementation builds on the Calvin platform developed by Ericsson. Being designed for implementation of services for IoT applications and written in Python, the platform provides excellent flexibility and is easy to extend at the cost of limitations to the task sizes that can be supported with stringent migration time limits. In this paper, we present the platform and its main functions and present experimental results which show how the platform performs as the task sizes increase.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"13 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133774147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cloud-Enabled Hybrid Architecture for In-Class Interactive Learning Using Mobile Device","authors":"M. Fuad, D. Deb","doi":"10.1109/MOBILECLOUD.2017.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MOBILECLOUD.2017.15","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile learning environments have the benefit of facilitating real time student learning and assessment. However, most of such learning environments only support static or traditional learning activities. In STEM disciplines, we need more active and engaging activities and mobile learning environments should be able to support such dynamic activities. By designing such learning environments to run completely on the cloud will limit its extensibility and will not accommodate interactive activities developed by anyone other than the developer of such learning environment. Instead, we argue that by incorporating cloud services in a traditional software architecture will allow the flexibility to develop and deploy interactive problem solving activities along with versatility that cloud computing brings. This paper presents Mobile Response System (MRS) that facilitates in-class interactive problem solving using mobile devices. MRS uses cloud services in the infrastructure to minimize instructor's workload, gives students transparent access, and makes the system failsafe alongside providing extensibility to any discipline.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125085157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework for Cloud Forensic Readiness in Organizations","authors":"A. Alenezi, R. K. Hussein, R. Walters, G. Wills","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.12","url":null,"abstract":"Many have argued that cloud computing is one of the fastest growing and most transformative technologies in the history of computing. It has radically changed the way in which information technologies can manage, access, deliver and create services. It has also brought numerous benefits to end-users and organizations. However, this rapid growth in cloud computing adoption has also seen it become a new arena for cybercrime. This has, in turn, led to new technical, legal and organizational challenges. In addition to the large number of attacks which affect cloud computing and the decentralized nature of data processing in the cloud, many concerns have been raised. One of these concerns is how to conduct a proper digital investigation in cloud environments and be ready to collect data proactively before an incident occurs in order to save time, money and effort. This paper proposes the technical, legal and organizational factors that influence digital forensic readiness for Infrastructure as a Service consumers.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128643162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaira K. Rivera Sánchez, S. Demurjian, Mohammed S. Baihan
{"title":"Achieving RBAC on RESTful APIs for Mobile Apps Using FHIR","authors":"Yaira K. Rivera Sánchez, S. Demurjian, Mohammed S. Baihan","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.22","url":null,"abstract":"Health Information Exchange (HIE) provides a morecomplete health record of an individual that improves patientcare with relevant data gathered from multiple healthinformation technology (HIT) systems. In support of HIE, theHealth Level Seven (HL7) XML standard was developed tomanage, exchange, integrate, and retrieve electronic healthinformation. In 2011, HL7 began drafting a next-generationstandard, Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR), tofacilitate the development and interaction of mobile health(mHealth) apps, HIT data sharing, and common format forinformation modeling. FHIR is based on RESTful APIs andsupported by a FHIR server infrastructure that facilitates theexchange in a cloud computing setting. FHIR while possessing asecurity specification, has yet to define and identify actualsecurity mechanisms for secure data exchange via RESTful APIcalls. In this paper, we incorporate role-based access control(RBAC) into FHIR to support the ability to control access ofwho can call which services of FHIR RESTful APIs that managesensitive healthcare data. The work is demonstrated utilizing amHealth application that communicates with the OpenEMRelectronic health record via the HAPI FHIR server.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131464728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Cushman, Md. Baitul Al Sadi, Lei Chen, Rami J. Haddad
{"title":"A Framework and the Design of Secure Mobile Cloud with Smart Load Balancing","authors":"I. Cushman, Md. Baitul Al Sadi, Lei Chen, Rami J. Haddad","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.41","url":null,"abstract":"The use of mobile devices has exponentially expanded in recent years. A device which was made with the sole purpose of making mobile audio phone calls is now the leading basis for functionality in the social world. The types of applications widely vary from audio and video calls, internet browsing, healthcare applications, to mobile games with online connectivity, among many others. These applications have expanded the original idea of what a mobile device could be, however there have been constant drawbacks to these devices, namely short battery life and limited available storage memory. Another current issue that exists with mobile devices is the higher data consumption when on mobile network data. To solve this problem, it is possible to use cloud computing to mitigate these large applications and use less data. Integrating in a mobile cloud system to allocate and store these applications will allow for the mobile devices to conserve battery and memory by avoiding large computational processes. Another major concern is security breaches resulting in data theft and/or invasion of privacy. In this paper, we present a new framework that will allow for a smart load balancer to efficiently allocate resources to increase application processing speed for data and request response of memory stored by mobile devices in a secure manner.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114348114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. M. Mustafa, Omar M. Abubakr, Omar Ahmadien, Ahmed Ahmedin, B. Mokhtar
{"title":"Mobility Prediction for Efficient Resources Management in Vehicular Cloud Computing","authors":"A. M. Mustafa, Omar M. Abubakr, Omar Ahmadien, Ahmed Ahmedin, B. Mokhtar","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.24","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) has becomea significant research area recently, due to its potentialadvantages and applications, especially in the field ofIntelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, thehigh mobility of vehicular environment poses crucial challengesto resources allocation and management in VCC, which makesits implementation more complex than conventional clouds. Many works have been introduced to address various issuesand aspects of VCC, including resources management andVirtual Machine Migration in vehicular clouds. However, usingmobility prediction in VCC has not been studied previously. Inthis paper, we introduce a novel solution to reduce the effect ofresources mobility on the performance of vehicular cloud, usingan efficient resources management scheme based on vehiclesmobility prediction. This approach enables the vehicular cloudto take pre-planned procedures, based on the output of anArtificial Neural Network (ANN) mobility prediction model. The aim is to reduce the negative impact of sudden changes invehicles locations on vehicular cloud performance. A simulationscenario is introduced to compare between the performanceof our resources management scheme and other resourcesmanagement approaches introduced in the literature. Thesimulation environment is based on Nagel-Shreckenberg cellularautomata (CA) discrete model for traffic simulation. Simulationresults show that our proposed approach has leveraged theperformance of vehicular cloud effectively without overusingavailable vehicular cloud resources.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123993168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ROSAC: A Round-Wise Fair Scheduling Approach for Mobile Clouds Based on Task Asymptotic Complexity","authors":"S. Noor, Ragib Hasan","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.36","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile cloud computing has become popular because of its flexible infrastructure and easily accessible storage, sensing, and computing services. However, scheduling and allocating resources for the tasks provided by the cloud user are major challenges in the mobile cloud. The existing scheduling algorithms in the mobile cloud primarily focus on dividing and distributing a single task among multiple devices participating in the mobile cloud. However, when the load on the mobile cloud increases, multiple requests from different users can come at a single time point. The existing scheduling algorithms for distributed systems cannot be implemented in the mobile cloud, because the available resources differ extensively in the mobile cloud depending upon the time, geographic location, incentive policy, etc. While some cloud users' tasks are computed by their specified deadlines, the others suffer heavily. Therefore, we propose ROSAC, a fair scheduling approach based on the complexity of the cloud users' assigned task that minimizes the average delay between the task computation time and users' specified deadline. ROSAC works by round wise task division and distribution where the estimated time of all the subtasks in each round are the same. We design a simulated platform for a mobile cloud and compare the performance of ROSAC with some of the widely used scheduling approaches for distributed systems.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132391063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre van Kempen, T. Crivat, Benjamin Trubert, Debaditya Roy, G. Pierre
{"title":"MEC-ConPaaS: An Experimental Single-Board Based Mobile Edge Cloud","authors":"Alexandre van Kempen, T. Crivat, Benjamin Trubert, Debaditya Roy, G. Pierre","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.17","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud infrastructures are extremely flexible and powerful, but their data centers are located very far from the end users. To address the limitations of these systems, many researchers are designing mobile edge clouds which complement traditional clouds with additional resources located in immediate proximity of the end users. However, currently there exists no open-source mobile edge cloud implementation which can easily be deployed over a campus or a city center to support real-world experimentations. We therefore present the design and implementation of MEC-ConPaaS, a mobile-edge cloud platform, which aims to support future research on edge cloud applications and middlewares. The system exploits single-board computers such as Raspberry Pis which are an order of magnitude cheaper than any server machine and much easier to setup in a distributed setting. We demonstrate that these devices are powerful enough to support real cloud applications, and to support further research on these topics.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129348755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}