Application-Aware Client-Side Data Reduction and Encryption of Personal Data in Cloud Backup Services |
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Authors: | Yin-Jin Fu Nong Xiao Xiang-Ke Liao Fang Liu |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China 2. School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China
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Abstract: | Cloud backup has been an important issue ever since large quantities of valuable data have been stored on the personal computing devices. Data reduction techniques, such as deduplication, delta encoding, and Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression, performed at the client side before data transfer can help ease cloud backup by saving network bandwidth and reducing cloud storage space. However, client-side data reduction in cloud backup services faces efficiency and privacy challenges. In this paper, we present Pangolin, a secure and efficient cloud backup service for personal data storage by exploiting application awareness. It can speedup backup operations by application-aware client-side data reduction technique, and mitigate data security risks by integrating selective encryption into data reduction for sensitive applications. Our experimental evaluation, based on a prototype implementation, shows that our scheme can improve data reduction efficiency over the state-of-the-art methods by shortening the backup window size to 33%~75%, and its security mechanism for sensitive applications has negligible impact on backup window size. |
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Keywords: | cloud backup data reduction application awareness selective encryption |
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