Hiding Data and Code Security for Application Hosting Infrastructure

In mobile computing environments, where clients have limited computing power and memory, it is common for mobile clients to use a fixed host server to execute their applications. Application hosting services, which rent out storage, (Internet) presence, and computation power to clients with IT needs (but without appropriate infrastructures) have been widely adopted. A common way these hosting services are used is as follows: (1) The customer (or application owner) A with an application P publishes this application along with the relevant data onto the servers of the host, H. (2) Whenever they need, the customer (or application owner) A or its clients access the application remotely by passing appropriate parameter variables v to the host. (3) The host, then, runs P(v) with the local data, and sends the result back to the requesting party. (4) The host charges the customer (or application owner) based on the resources (bandwidth, CPU, storage, etc.) required for the processing of the request.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287

   Ping Lin, K. Selçuk Candan, Rida Bazzi & Zhichao Liu

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

   Hsinchun Chen , Daniel D. Zeng  & Therani Madhusudan ,  & 

2. Tucson Police Department, 270 S. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ, 85701, USA

   Richard Miranda  & Jenny Schroeder  & 

3. School of Public Administration and Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

   Chris Demchak

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