Location based secured task scheduling in cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is one of the highly debated topics in today’s IT as well as academic research domain. The balance between performance and security has always been a vital issue when adapting cloud-based services. Task scheduling is a major research area of cloud computing, where efficient algorithms are devised for service providers to allocate a task to a particular virtual machine, thereby enhancing the performance as well as execution time of the tasks. Though QoS has been kept in mind while designing such schemes, the aspect of security has been majorly ignored in the existing works. Here a secured task scheduling methodology has been devised by using the test environment of CloudSim 3.0.3.