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A Reliable Client Detection System during Load Balancing for Multi-tenant Cloud Environment

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Cloud computing is a broad-scale distributed computing system and is a widely accepted archetype that has many luxurious features, including traffic scalability, resource allocation, accessibility, inter-communication cost, and many more. Security is considered one of the primary concerns in the cloud. This paper chooses to formulate this problem by improving the Virtual Machine (VM) allocation policy. The authors have enhanced this policy from a different perspective by maintaining the difficulty in co-tenancy between attackers and targets. A secure resource allocation mechanism has been proposed to prevent multi-tenancy attacks, where attackers and the target are co-tenants on the same server. The multi-objective approach is implemented for a secure load balancing model called reliable client detection system (RCDS). This model inquires the safe or unsafe states all along VM distribution which accomplishes and estimates the reliability of the clients as per the historical performances. When cloud data centers have received the demands to deploy the upcoming jobs, the introduced model helps to find a secure physical machine for balancing the load with avoiding threats. It is evident from the results that RCDS can effectively diminish the risks and security score when increased from 100 to 1000 numbers of cloudlets under the safe states. Performance evaluation demonstrates that RCDS achieves high throughput, avoids traffic overflow, and reduces traffic up to 33.37% in the network.

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    Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Rishabh Gupta & Deepika Saxena

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Singh, A.K., Chhabra, S., Gupta, R. et al. A Reliable Client Detection System during Load Balancing for Multi-tenant Cloud Environment. SN COMPUT. SCI. 4, 86 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01504-3

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