TAMEC: Trusted Augmented Mobile Execution on Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing has emerged as an attractive platform for individuals and businesses to augment their basic processing capabilities. Mobile devices with access to Internet are also turning towards clouds for resource-intensive tasks by working out a trade-off between resources required for performing computation on-device against those required for off-loading task to the cloud. However, as with desktop clients, mobile clients face significant concerns related to confidentiality and integrity of data and applications moved to and from the cloud. Cloud-related security solutions proposed for desktop clients could not be readily ported to mobile clients owing to the obvious limitation in their processing capabilities and restrained battery life. We address this problem by proposing architecture for secure exchange and trusted execution between mobile devices and cloud hosts. We establish a symmetric-key-based secure communication channel between mobile and cloud, backed by a trusted coordinator. We also employee a Trusted Platform Module- (TPM-) based attestation of the cloud nodes on which the data and applications of mobile device will be hosted. This gives a comprehensive solution for end-to-end secure and trusted interaction of the mobile device with cloud hosts.