An approach for the secure management of hybrid cloud-edge environments

作者：Celesti, Antonio^*; Fazio, Maria; Galletta, Antonino; Carnevale, Lorenzo; Wan, Jiafu; Villari, Massimo

来源：Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of eScience, 2019, 90: 1-19.

DOI：10.1016/j.future.2018.06.043

• Cloud computing
• Edge computing
• Management
• Communication
• Security

The Cloud-of-Things (CoT) paradigm is a challenging approach to manage loT applications exploiting Cloud resources and services. In order to avoid latency in Cloud-IoT communications, the management of time-sensitive services has to be moved to the edge of the CoT. To this aim, a secure Cloud-to-Edge environment for seamless management of IoT applications is necessary. The realization of a performing and secure Cloud-to-Edge middleware solution is a very strategic goal for future business CoT services. Thus, it needs to be deeply investigated, as highlighted by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). A valuable approach to develop an efficient Cloud-to-Edge system is based on an instant-message communication solution. In current Cloud environments, a Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) based on an Instant Message Protocol (IMP) provides good performance, but overlook security requirements. In this paper, we aim at overcoming such a gap following the CSA guidelines. In particular, we discuss the involved issues for improving such a kind of Cloud-to-Edge system in order to achieve data confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation. Moreover, we analyze a real case of study considering a MOM architectural model. Experimental results performed on a real testbed show how the introduced secure capabilities do not affect the overall performances of the whole middleware.

• 出版日期2019-1
• 单位华南理工大学