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A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-Assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism

Show Author's Information Donghyun Kim,  Junggab Son,  Daehee Seo,  Yeojin Kim,  Hyobin Kim,  Jung Taek Seo( )
Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA.
Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, South Korea.
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cloud computing, fog computing, network storage, data audit, merkle hash tree, integer factorization, payment, transparency
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Kim D, Son J, Seo D, et al. A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-Assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2020, 25(1): 28-43. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2019.9010025
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This paper introduces a new fog-assisted cloud storage which can achieve much higher throughput compared to the traditional cloud-only storage architecture by reducing the traffics toward the cloud storage. The fog-storage service providers are transparency to end-users and therefore, no modification on the end-user devices is necessary. This new system is featured with (1) a stronger audit scheme which is naturally coupled with the proposed architecture and does not suffer from the replay attack and (2) a transparent and efficient compensation mechanism for the fog-storage service providers. We provide rigorous theoretical analysis on the correctness and soundness of the proposed system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to discuss about a storage data audit scheme for fog-assisted cloud storage as well as the compensation mechanism for the service providers of the fog-storage service providers.


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A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-Assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism

Show Author's information Donghyun Kim, Junggab Son, Daehee Seo, Yeojin Kim, Hyobin Kim, Jung Taek Seo( )
Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA.
Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, South Korea.

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This paper introduces a new fog-assisted cloud storage which can achieve much higher throughput compared to the traditional cloud-only storage architecture by reducing the traffics toward the cloud storage. The fog-storage service providers are transparency to end-users and therefore, no modification on the end-user devices is necessary. This new system is featured with (1) a stronger audit scheme which is naturally coupled with the proposed architecture and does not suffer from the replay attack and (2) a transparent and efficient compensation mechanism for the fog-storage service providers. We provide rigorous theoretical analysis on the correctness and soundness of the proposed system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to discuss about a storage data audit scheme for fog-assisted cloud storage as well as the compensation mechanism for the service providers of the fog-storage service providers.

Keywords: cloud computing, fog computing, network storage, data audit, merkle hash tree, integer factorization, payment, transparency

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Received: 06 May 2019
Revised: 16 May 2019
Accepted: 28 May 2019
Published: 22 July 2019
Issue date: February 2020

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This work was supported by Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2016-6-00599, a study on functional signature and its applications). This work was also supported in part by the Soonchunhyang University Research Fund.

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