Biblio

Mobile communication technology is developing rapidly, and this is integrated with technologies such as Software Defined Network (SDN), cloud computing, and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Network Functions (NFs) are no longer deployed on dedicated hardware devices, while deployed in Virtual Machines (VMs) or containers as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). If VNFs are tampered with or replaced, the communication system will not function properly. Our research is to enhance the security of VNFs using trusted computing technology. By adding Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) to the virtualization platform, the chain of trust extends from the VM operating system to VNFs within the VM. Experimental results prove that the solution can effectively protect the integrity of VNFs from being attacked.

Searchable encryption is one of the most important techniques for the sensitive data outsourced to cloud server, and has been widely used in cloud storage which brings huge convenience and saves bandwidth and computing resources. A novel searchable cryptographic scheme is proposed by which data owner can control the search and use of the outsourced encrypted data according to its access control policy. The scheme is called searchable ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with multikeywords (CPABMKS). In the scheme, CP-ABE and keywords are combined together through the way that the keywords are regarded as the file attributes. To overcome the previous problems in cloud storage, access structures are hidden so that receivers cannot extract sensitive information from the ciphertext. At the same time, this scheme supports the multi-keywords search, and the data owner can outsource the encryption operations to the private cloud that can reduce the data owner' calculation. The security of this scheme is proved based on the DBDH assumption. Finally, scheme evaluation shows that the CPABMKS scheme is practical