Trusted Validation for Geolocation of Cloud Data

Computer Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2595-2607

  Fu, Dong Lai ^a,b   Peng, Xin Guang ^a   Yang, Yu Li ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

cloud computing; host geolocation; storage security; trusted computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; NETWORK SECURITY;

CONSTRAINT-BASED; CURRENT SCHEMES; GEOLOCATIONS; SECRET INFORMATION; SENSITIVE DATAS; STORAGE SECURITY; TAMPER-PROOF DEVICES; TRUSTED COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY;

TRUSTED COMPUTING;

EID: 84943390581     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxu144     Document Type: Article

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