Harnessing the cloud for securely outsourcing large-scale systems of linear equations

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1172-1181

  Wang, Cong ^a   Ren, Kui ^b   Wang, Jia ^c   Wang, Qian ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cloud computing; computation outsourcing; Confidential data; system of linear equations

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONFIDENTIAL DATA; ITERATIVE APPROXIMATIONS; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTATIONS; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS; SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OUTSOURCING; SALES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84877785052     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.206     Document Type: Article

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