Weighted Ranked Queries for secure search in cost-effective clouds

Cloud computing has emerged as a major way of reducing the information technology costs incurred by organizations. For a cost-sensitive organization which stores its data in the cloud and retrieves files via keyword search, the primary focus is on the issues of cost effectiveness as well as privacy....

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Published inInternational Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Anand, V., Abdul Moiz Qyser, Ahmed
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2014
Subjects
cloud computing
cost effectiveness
Dictionaries
differential queries
Encryption
Java
Organizations
pay-as-you-go
privacy
Protocols
Standards organizations
WRQ
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Summary:Cloud computing has emerged as a major way of reducing the information technology costs incurred by organizations. For a cost-sensitive organization which stores its data in the cloud and retrieves files via keyword search, the primary focus is on the issues of cost effectiveness as well as privacy. Three keyword-based secure search protocols, namely Ostrovsky protocol, Cooperative Private Searching (COPS) protocol and Efficient Information Retrieval for Ranked Queries (EIRQ) protocol are reviewed in this paper. Each protocol offers an improvement over the basic keyword search used by today's cloud users. After discussing the limitations of EIRQ, a new protocol named Weighted Ranked Queries (WRQ) is proposed. A comparison of the performance of these protocols is presented. The future work that could be carried out in this area is mentioned in the conclusion.
DOI:10.1109/ICCCT2.2014.7066718