Remote data auditing in cloud computing environments: A survey, taxonomy, and open issues

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sookhak, Mehdi ^a   Gani, Abdullah ^a   Talebian, Hamid ^a   Akhunzada, Adnan ^a   Khan, Samee U ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^c   Zomaya, Albert Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Erasure coding; Network coding; Remote Data Auditing; Replication

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIGITAL STORAGE; MOBILE SECURITY; NETWORK CODING; PRINTING MACHINERY; SECURITY OF DATA; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; DYNAMIC DATA STRUCTURE; ERASURE CODING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ON-DEMAND APPLICATIONS; REMOTE DATA; REPLICATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84930646829     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2764465     Document Type: Review

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