Title
Nomad: A Framework for Developing Mission-Critical Cloud-Based Applications
Abstract
The practicality of existing techniques for processing encrypted data stored in untrusted cloud environments is a limiting factor in the adoption of cloud-based applications. Both public and private sector organizations are reluctant to push their data to the cloud due to strong requirements for security and privacy of their data. In particular, mission-critical defense applications used by governments do not tolerate any leakage of sensitive data. In this paper, we propose Nomad, a framework for developing mission-critical cloud-based applications. The framework is comprised of: 1) a homomorphism encryption-based service for processing encrypted data directly within the untrusted cloud infrastructure, and 2) a client service for encrypting and decrypting data within the trusted environment, and storing and retrieving these data to and from the cloud. Both services are equipped with GPU-based parallelization to accelerate the expensive homomorphic encryption operations. To evaluate the Nomad framework, we developed Call For Fire, amission-critical application which enables defense personnel to call for fire on targets. Due to the nature of the mission, this application requires guaranteed security. The experimental results highlight the performance enhancements of the GPU-based acceleration mechanism and the feasibility of the Nomad framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ARES.2015.94
International Conference on availability, reliability and security
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Cloud Applications, Security, Privacy, Homomorphic Encryption, Mission-Critical Systems
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mamadou H. Diallo1496.97
Michael August291.40
Roger Hallman3147.73
Megan Kline4113.13
Henry Au551.01
Vic Beach651.01