Geometric Authentication Mechanism for Enhancing Security in IoT Environment

In the Internet of things (IoT) environment, many applications access services through remote methods. In this paper, we designed a new geometric authentication mechanism to enhance security. The solution is based on geometric characteristics to achieve rapid authentication at low computational cost. In addition, we use the user’s biometrics to improve the security level of the system. Our solution meets the following security features: anonymity, resistance to forgery attacks and replay attacks, fast error detection, resistance to offline password guessing attacks, resistance to server overload attacks, mutual authentication, session key agreement, and flexibility in users choosing and changing their passwords easily.

Self - Adaptive Load Balancing Using Live Migration of Virtual Machines in Cloud Environment

In this paper, a self-adaptive load balancing technique is proposed using live migration of heterogeneous virtual machines (VM) in a Hyper-V based cloud environment. A cloud supported plugin as a management activity within the infrastructure as a service strategy. It is proposed to assist the load balancing process in such a way so that all hypervisors are almost equally loaded once the overload status gets triggered. In the cloud computing environment, load balancing plays a major role if the large number of events triggered has a high impact on the performance of the system. The efficiency of cloud computing is based on the efficient load balancing having a self-adjustable technique using live migration of VMs across clusters of nodes. The proposed load balancing model is efficient in performance improvement by efficient resource utilization and also it helps to avoid the situation occurrence of server hanging by the cause of server overload within the infrastructure of multiple Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors environment.

Balanceamento de Tráfego entre Servidores de Vídeo MPEG-DASH em Redes Definidas por Software

With popularization of video streaming service in recent years, new video distribution technologies have been created. Currently, one of the most promising ones is the Moving Picture Expert Group Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or MPEG-DASH. However, with the limitation of the TCP/IP network structure, the end user quality of experience may be affected. This is due to several factors such as network congestion, bandwidth limitation, non-optimal choice of a content provider server and server overload. This article presents a load-balancing solution between MPEG-DASH video servers based on Software Defined Networks, using as a balancing metric the throughput of the content server.