Efficient Keyword Search Techniques over Cloud Data in Cloud Computing.

Abstract

Cloud computing is becoming an essential part of IT industry. As it becomes dominant, more amounts of sensitive data are being outsourced into the cloud. Users stores their files in different Cloud models (Public, Community and Hybrid), and retrieves on need basis [1]. On the basis of user's requirement, accessing the data from cloud servers is one of the major challenging problems. Processing the query and retrieving the data over cloud server is one of the difficult tasks. Encryption of data is also an important concept that needs to be dealt in-detail from both Data Owner & Data User perspective. Many keyword based searching techniques are used for the purpose of retrieving the data from cloud. In this paper various data search techniques like Fuzzy keyword search, Single keyword search, and Ranked keyword search are concentrated to focus on accessing encrypted Cloud data.