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Multi-channel Secure Interconnection Design for Hybrid Clouds

Authors:
Mauro Storch
César De Rose
Avelino Zorzo
Régio Michelin

Keywords: Hybird Cloud Computing; Communication Security; Distributed Systems; Network Communications; Communication Performance; Quality of Services.

Abstract:
Since its conception, Cloud Computing elasticity behavior offers a smart option of extension to companies' infrastructure. This extension is also used to create Hybrid Cloud Computing (HCC) environments through connecting private and public cloud instances. The connection channel between the company's private cloud and the public cloud provider is often encrypted due to security reasons. This paper proposes a multi-channel interconnection design for computing services of a hybrid cloud, targeting companies' security profiles. The design prioritizes vital channels, i.e., Quality of Services guarantees, and improves security by applying a different cryptographic cipher to each given channel. Also, our tests using OpenVPN as the channel player show improved communication up to 5 times when splitting the workload into multiple connections.

Pages: 157 to 162

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-398-8

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015