With the development of cloud computing, privacy security issues have become increasingly
prominent, which is of concern to industry and academia. We review the research progress …

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) for cloud computing access control is reviewed in this
article. A taxonomy and comprehensive assessment criteria of ABE are first proposed. In the …

Fifth generation (5G) networks are the base communication technology for connecting
objects in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. 5G is being developed to provide …

A large number of researchers, academia, government sectors, and business enterprises
are adopting the cloud environment due to the least upfront capital investment, maximum …

With the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, the development of smart cities based on the Internet
of Things (IoT) has reached a new level. As a key component of the Internet of Things (IoT) …

As an immutable append-only distributed ledger, blockchain allows a group of participants
to reach a consensus in an untrustworthy ecosystem. Immutability is a blockchain feature …

The organizational valuable data needs to be shared with multiple parties and stakeholders
in a cloud environment for storage, analysis, and data utilization. However, to ensure the …

Cloud-fog computing is a novel paradigm to extend the functionality of cloud computing to
provide a variety of on-demand data services via the edge network. Many cryptographic …

While immutability is an important property of blockchain and can be utilized to build a
credible data publishing platform, the same property can also be abused to disseminate …

Searchable encryption (SE) allows cloud tenants to retrieve encrypted data while preserving
data confidentiality securely. Many SE solutions have been designed to improve efficiency …