Computation offloading has emerged as one of the promising approaches to address the
issues of restricted resources, leading to poor user experiences on smartphones in terms of …

Cyber-attacks affect every aspect of our lives. These attacks have serious consequences,
not only for cyber-security, but also for safety, as the cyber and physical worlds are …

Security challenges are still among the biggest obstacles when considering the adoption of
cloud services. This triggered a lot of research activities, resulting in a quantity of proposals …

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been widely used in cloud computing where a data
provider outsources his/her encrypted data to a cloud service provider, and can share the …

Outsourcing database to clouds is a scalable and cost-effective way for large scale data
storage, management, and query processing. Trajectory data contain rich spatio-temporal …

Smart Cities make use of ICT technology to address the challenges of modern urban
management. The cloud provides an efficient and cost-effective platform on which they can …

Homomorphic encryption, which enables the execution of arithmetic operations directly on
ciphertexts, is a promising solution for protecting privacy of cloud-delegated computations …

Sharing photos through Online Social Networks isan increasingly popular fashion. However,
it poses a seriousthreat to end users as private information in the photos …

In this article, perspectives from Cloud computing practitioners are shown in order to
address clients concerns and bring about awareness of the measures that put in place to …

Ubiquitous sensing environments such as sensor networks collect large amounts of data.
This data volume is destined to grow even further with the vision of the Internet of Things …