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NetSecCC: A scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud computing security

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How to ensure network security for modern virtual machine based cloud computing platforms is still an open question. This question becomes more important and urgent to solve, as the fast development of cloud computing in recent years. Though there are many existing solutions, they either provide incomplete protection or neglect important intrinsic characteristics in cloud computing. In this paper, we introduce a novel network security architecture for cloud computing (NetSecCC) considering characteristics of cloud computing. Specifically, it 1) provides protection to both external and interne traffics in cloud computing, 2) attains flexible scalability with respect to virtual middlebox load, and 3) achieves fault-tolerant among virtual middlebox failure. Experiments and simulations on our proof-of-concept prototype of NetSecCC validate that NetSecCC is an effective architecture with minimal performance overhead, and that it can be applied to extensive practical promotion in cloud computing.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, 611731, People’s Republic of China

    Jin He, Minyu Fan & Guangwei Wang

  2. Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan

    Mianxiong Dong

  3. Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan

    Kaoru Ota

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He, J., Dong, M., Ota, K. et al. NetSecCC: A scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud computing security. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 9, 67–81 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-014-0314-y

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