Landmark-based data location verification in the cloud: review of approaches and challenges

Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 3 Vulnerabilities to attacks of analyzed approaches

	Blocking		Malicious		VM	Forging		Caching	Concealed
	verification		proxy		misappropriation	RTT		data	connection
	Landmarks	Trace service	No interaction	With interaction		Random	Requester-location aware
Biswal2015 [27]	×	×	×			×	×	×	×
Ries2011 [24]	×	×	×			×	×	×	×
Fotouhi2015 [10]	×	×	×		×	×	×	×	×
Jaiswal2016 [22]	×			×		×	×	×	×
Benson2011 [25]	×			×		×	×	×	×
Gondree2013 [26]	×					×	×		×
Watson2012 [21]	×					×	×		×
Eskandari2014 [23]					×	×	×	×	×

×: the proposed solution is vulnerable to the attack; an empty case means no vulnerability