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Mitigating Security Problems in Fog Computing System

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Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 419))

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Fog computing model was designed to provide computing at network’s edge among Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its main purpose was to overcome the problems faced in cloud computing and provide services more effectively and efficiently. Being an extension of cloud computing, many security and privacy challenges that were faced by cloud computing are inherited by fog computing also. This paper presents different security and privacy challenges and work done by different researchers to overcome those challenges. Different techniques are represented with various metrices which they try to solve. We also proposed a method using ciphertext and shared key method to solve the problem of authentication and provide secure data sharing among the nodes. This method is supposed to be better than others in term of providing confidentiality, access control, authenticity and also protect from multiple splitting of private key.

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  1. Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Chandigarh, India

    Shruti

  2. Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India

    Shalli Rani

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    Ajith Abraham

  2. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Port, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Maria Madureira

  3. Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Shruti, Rani, S. (2022). Mitigating Security Problems in Fog Computing System. In: Abraham, A., et al. Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. IBICA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96299-9_58

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