Enhance manet usability for encrypted data retrieval from cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing has become a revolutionary computing model which provides an economical and flexible strategy for resource sharing and data management. Due to privacy concerns, sensitive data has to be encrypted before being uploaded to the cloud servers. Over the last few years, several keyword searchable encryption works have been described in the literature. However, existing works mostly focus on secure searching using keyword and only retrieve Boolean results that are not yet adequate. On the other hand, poor-resources of mobile networks play an important role on all applications area nowadays. Mobile nodes mostly act as information retrieval end which make it important to address this problem. In this paper, we present a secure keyword search scheme based on the Bloom filter(SKS-BF), which enhances the system’s usability by allowing ranking based on the relevance score of the search results and retrieves the top most relevant files instead of retrieving all the files. Further, the Bloom filter (BFs) can accelerate a search process involving a large number of keywords. Extensive experiments and network simulation confirm the efficiency of our proposed schemes.