DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security

DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security

Abstract— DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security. Outsourcing data to a third-party administrative control, as is done in cloud computing, gives rise to security concerns. The data compromise may occur due to attacks by other users and nodes within the cloud. Therefore, high security measures are required to protect data within the cloud.However, the employed security strategy must also take into account the optimization of the data retrieval time. We propose Division and Replication of Data in the Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security DROPS < Final Year Projects 2016 > that collectively approaches the security and performance issues.In the DROPS methodology, we divide a file into fragments, and replicate the fragmented data over the cloud nodes. Each of the nodes stores only a single fragment of a particular data file that ensures that even in case of a successful attack, no meaningful information is revealed to attacker. Moreover, the nodes storing the fragments, are separated with certain distance by means of graph T-coloring to prohibit an attacker of guessing the locations of the fragments