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With the steady increase of offered cloud storage services, they became a popular alternative to local storage systems. Beside several benefits, the usage of cloud storage services can offer, they have also some downsides like potential vendor lock-in or unavailability. Different pricing models, storage technologies and changing storage requirements are further complicating the selection of the best fitting storage solution. In this work, we present a heuristic optimization approach that optimizes the placement of data on cloud-based storage services in a redundant, cost- and latency-efficient way while considering user-defined Quality of Service requirements. The presented approach uses monitored data access patterns to find the best fitting storage solution. Through extensive evaluations, we show that our approach saves up to 30% of the storage cost and reduces the upload and download times by up to 48% and 69% in comparison to a baseline that follows a state-of-the-art approach.

The IoT (Internet of Things) is one of the primary reasons for the massive growth in the number of connected devices to the Internet, thus leading to an increased volume of traffic in the core network. Fog and edge computing are becoming a solution to handle IoT traffic by moving timesensitive processing to the edge of the network, while using the conventional cloud for historical analysis and long-term storage. Providing processing, storage, and network communication at the edge network are the aim of fog computing to reduce delay, network traffic, and decentralise computing. In this paper, we define a framework that realises fog computing that can be extended to install any service of choice. Our framework utilises fog nodes as an extension of the traditional switch to include processing, networking, and storage. The fog nodes act as local decision-making elements that interface with software-defined networking (SDN), to be able to push updates throughout the network. To test our framework, we develop an IP spoofing security application and ensure its correctness through multiple experiments.