Effective and Secure vWSN Applications in a Virtualized Cloud Computing Environment

Security is one of the key concerns in cloud computing. We are proposing Virtual Wireless Sensor Network (vWSN) which is one of the key features of cloud computing in the area of agriculture. Our main focuses are effective and secure vWSN in virtualized cloud computing environment with enhanced security to detect environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, soil moisture, air quality (pollution) monitoring, insect monitoring, pest and disease control, which is based on virtualization and cloud computing technology, centrally managed device having flexible and configurable parameter with less maintenance and operational cost. To the best of our knowledge, vWSN is the first approach to agriculture based on extensional WSN information. WSN contains both control plane (signaling) and data plane (forwarding) coupled together.WSN is a specific purpose computer containing hardware whose main components are memory, CPU, IO, registers, Data and address bus, timer, sensor, computing logic and decision making logic. WSN is a physical device which needs to be placed in the field in certain topology (Ring, mesh, tree, star) which may need to be protected for damage and erosion due to various parameter including but not limited to physical theft, damage due to weather, animal and various other reason. In this paper our approach is to propose virtualized model to replace physical wireless sensor network (WSN) to virtual machine (VM) based vWSN which can be deployed on the cloud. Since security is one of the major concern for VM in cloud computing therefore we also proposed the enhanced 3-tier security model for vWSN

SecNetworkCloudSim: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Secure Distributed Mobile Applications

Fueled by the wide interest for achieving rich-storage services with the lowest possible cost, cloud computing has emerged into a highly desired service paradigm extending well beyond Virtualization technology. The next generation of mobile cloud services is now manipulated more and more sensitive data on VM-based distributed applications. Therefore, the need to secure sensitive data over mobile cloud computing is more evident than ever. However, despite the widespread release of several cloud simulators, controlling user’s access and protecting data exchanges in distributed mobile applications over the cloud is considered a major challenge. This paper introduces a new NetworkCloudSim extension named SecNetworkCloudSim, a secure mobile simulation tool which is deliberately designed to ensure the preservation of confidential access to data hosted on mobile device and distributed cloud’s servers. Through high-level mobile users’ requests, users connect to an underlying proxy which is considered an important layer in this new simulator, where users perform secure authentication access to cloud services, allocate their tasks in secure VM-based policy, manage automatically the data confidentiality among VMs and derive high efficiency and coverage rates. Most importantly, due to the secure nature of proxy, user’s distributed tasks can be executed without alterations on different underlying proxy’s security policies. We implement a scenario of follow-up healthcare distributed application using the new extension