Abstract

Cloud Computing has become an important paradigm that has attracted many users in industry and academia. Many people use the cloud every day without knowing its technology. All versions of email, drives, access to the applications that are not physically installed on the local system they utilize the features of the cloud. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) provides cloud-based services to users through mobile devices. The data shared/uploaded with mobile devices to public data storage increases productivity, but on the other side introduces security vulnerabilities as well. In the Attribute-based Encryption (ABE) scheme, attributes are dynamically collected from the mobile devices. It plays a vital role in generating a public key for encrypting data and control user access policy. The authors review ABE methods that provide secure data access control for Mobile cloud computing environment.