*_Notice and Invitation_*
Oral Defense of Doctoral Dissertation
The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University

Meixing Le
Bachelor of Science, Fudan University, 2004
Master of Science, Fudan University, 2007

  

*Secure Cooperative Data Access in Multi-Cloud Environment*

Wednesday, May 1^st 2013, 9:00AM
Research Hall, Room 401

All are invited to attend.

*_Committee_*
Dr. Sushil Jajodia, Co-Chair

Dr. Krishna Kant, Co-Chair
Dr. Angelos Stavrou

Dr. Massimiliano Albanese

Dr. Duminda Wijesekera

*_Abstract_*

To implement desired bushiness services, certain queries against useful 
information need to be executed in a multi-cloud environment where the 
data is owned and managed by multiple collaborating enterprises. In such 
cases, authorization rules over the joins of relational data are given 
so that parties selectively share information with each other.

Based on that, we define the notion of rule consistency and devise an 
algorithm to ensure it even in case of rule changes. In addition, not 
all the authorization rules can be safely enforced among existing 
parties. To that end, we propose a bottom-up algorithm to systematically 
check the rule enforceability for each rule and a mechanism to generate 
a query execution plan that is consistent with the authorization rules 
for each incoming authorized query. For unenforceable rules, trusted 
third parties are needed and it is important to minimize the interaction 
with third parties. We define cost models and formulate the minimization 
problem. We show the hardness of this problem and propose efficient 
algorithm to search solutions. With extensive simulation evaluations, 
the results show the effectiveness of the approach.

A copy of this doctoral dissertation is on reserve at the Johnson Center 
Library.