A Lightweight Secure iSCSI-based Remote Storage Service for Mobile Devices

ErnYu Lee; YuShu They; HyoTaek Lim; HoonJae Lee

2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Lightweight Secure iSCSI-based Remote Storage Service for Mobile Devices

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469402,
    author={ErnYu Lee and YuShu They and HyoTaek Lim and HoonJae Lee},
    title={A Lightweight Secure iSCSI-based Remote Storage Service for Mobile Devices},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Authentication  Cryptography  Encryption  IPsec  Lightweight  Mobile Computing  Security  Virtual Storage  iSCSI},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469402}
}

ErnYu Lee
YuShu They
HyoTaek Lim
HoonJae Lee
Year: 2008
A Lightweight Secure iSCSI-based Remote Storage Service for Mobile Devices
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469402

ErnYu Lee¹^,*, YuShu They¹^,*, HyoTaek Lim²^,*, HoonJae Lee²^,*

1: Graduate School of Design and IT Dongseo University San 69-1, Churye-2 Dong, SaSang-Ku, Pusan 617-716, South Korea
2: Division of Computer and Information Engineering, Dongseo University San 69-1, Churye-2 Dong, SaSang-Ku, Pusan 617-716, South Korea

*Contact email: ernyu@dit.dongseo.ac.kr, ysthey@dit.dongseo.ac.kr, htlim@dongseo.ac.kr, hjlee@dongseo.ac.kr

Abstract

The rapid growth of ubiquitous technology has created a tremendous enhancement in the area of mobile computing. Due to the limited storage capabilities on mobile devices, iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Interface), a remote storage access system would be one of the possible solutions to resolve this problem. However, when security of the storage data running over the storage area network is taken into consideration, it invariably raises the issue of security. This paper aims to design a new lightweight secure iSCSI-based remote storage for mobile devices. A security module which is suitable for mobile devices was proposed on top of the solution on the current limitations of default iSCSI security mechanism. Relevant experiments are carried out and the results reveal the efficiency of proposed algorithm in which it introduces over 100% Read/Write performance improvement compared with the IPsec approach.

Keywords: Authentication Cryptography Encryption IPsec Lightweight Mobile Computing Security Virtual Storage iSCSI

Published: 2008-03-07
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-12

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469402