Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications

Editor’s note: Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Big Data Storage in the Cloud

General Theory of security and a study of hacker’s behavior in big data era

Yixian Yang, Xinxin Niu, Lixiang Li, Haipeng Peng, Jingfeng Ren, Haochun Qi

Identity based secure authentication scheme based on quantum key distribution for cloud computing

Geeta Sharma, Sheetal Kalra

Ownership-hidden group-oriented proofs of storage from pre-homomorphic signatures

Yujue Wang, Qianhong Wu, Bo Qin, Xiaofeng Chen, Xinyi Huang, Jungang Lou

Protecting lightweight block cipher implementation in mobile big data computing

Weidong Qiu, Bozhong Liu, Can Ge, Lingzhi Xu, Xiaoming Tang, Guozhen Liu

Resource allocation in cooperative cognitive radio networks towards secure communications for maritime big data systems

Tingting Yang, Hailong Feng, Chengming Yang, Ruilong Deng, Ge Guo, Tieshan Li

Whispers in the cloud storage: A novel cross-user deduplication-based covert channel design

Hermine Hovhannisyan, Wen Qi, Kejie Lu, Rongwei Yang, Jianping Wang

VMKDO: Verifiable multi-keyword search over encrypted cloud data for dynamic data-owner

Yinbin Miao, Jianfeng Ma, Ximeng Liu, Zhiquan Liu, Limin Shen, Fushan Wei

A new randomized message-locked encryption in the standard model

Huige Wang, Kefei Chen, Yu Long, Junyao Ye, Liangliang Wang

Privacy-aware electricity scheduling for home energy management system

Junjie Yang, Gengqiang Huang, Chunjuan Wei

DFA-VMP: An efficient and secure virtual machine placement strategy under cloud environment

Weichao Ding, Chunhua Gu, Fei Luo, Yaohui Chang, Ulysse Rugwiro, Xiaoke Li, Geng Wen

Efficient privacy-preserving online medical primary diagnosis scheme on naive bayesian classification

Xiaoxia Liu, Hui Zhu, Rongxing Lu, Hui Li