Performance Comparison of Hyper-V and KVM for Cryptographic Tasks in Cloud Computing

As the extensive use of cloud computing raises questions about the security of any personal data stored there,cryptography is being used more frequently as a security tool to protect data confidentiality and privacy in the cloud environment.A hypervisor is a virtualization software used in cloud hosting to divide and allocate resources on various pieces of hardware.The choice of hypervisor can significantly impact the performance of cryptographic operations in the cloud environment.An important issue that must be carefully examined is that no hypervisor is completely superior in terms of performance;Each hypervisor should be examined to meet specific needs.The main objective of this study is to provide accurate results to compare the performance of Hyper-V and Kernel-based Virtual Machine(KVM)while implementing different cryptographic algorithms to guide cloud service providers and end users in choosing the most suitable hypervisor for their cryptographic needs.This study evaluated the efficiency of two hypervisors,Hyper-V and KVM,in implementing six cryptographic algorithms:Rivest,Shamir,Adleman(RSA),Advanced Encryption Standard(AES),Triple Data Encryption Standard(TripleDES),Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares(CAST-128),BLOWFISH,and TwoFish.The study’s findings show that KVM outperforms Hyper-V,with 12.2%less Central Processing Unit(CPU)use and 12.95%less time overall for encryption and decryption operations with various file sizes.The study’s findings emphasize how crucial it is to pick a hypervisor that is appropriate for cryptographic needs in a cloud environment,which could assist both cloud service providers and end users.Future research may focus more on how various hypervisors perform while handling cryptographic workloads.

Cloud Datacenter Selection Using Service Broker Policies:A Survey

Amid the landscape of Cloud Computing(CC),the Cloud Datacenter(DC)stands as a conglomerate of physical servers,whose performance can be hindered by bottlenecks within the realm of proliferating CC services.A linchpin in CC’s performance,the Cloud Service Broker(CSB),orchestrates DC selection.Failure to adroitly route user requests with suitable DCs transforms the CSB into a bottleneck,endangering service quality.To tackle this,deploying an efficient CSB policy becomes imperative,optimizing DC selection to meet stringent Qualityof-Service(QoS)demands.Amidst numerous CSB policies,their implementation grapples with challenges like costs and availability.This article undertakes a holistic review of diverse CSB policies,concurrently surveying the predicaments confronted by current policies.The foremost objective is to pinpoint research gaps and remedies to invigorate future policy development.Additionally,it extensively clarifies various DC selection methodologies employed in CC,enriching practitioners and researchers alike.Employing synthetic analysis,the article systematically assesses and compares myriad DC selection techniques.These analytical insights equip decision-makers with a pragmatic framework to discern the apt technique for their needs.In summation,this discourse resoundingly underscores the paramount importance of adept CSB policies in DC selection,highlighting the imperative role of efficient CSB policies in optimizing CC performance.By emphasizing the significance of these policies and their modeling implications,the article contributes to both the general modeling discourse and its practical applications in the CC domain.

Intelligent Solution System for Cloud Security Based on Equity Distribution:Model and Algorithms

In the cloud environment,ensuring a high level of data security is in high demand.Data planning storage optimization is part of the whole security process in the cloud environment.It enables data security by avoiding the risk of data loss and data overlapping.The development of data flow scheduling approaches in the cloud environment taking security parameters into account is insufficient.In our work,we propose a data scheduling model for the cloud environment.Themodel is made up of three parts that together help dispatch user data flow to the appropriate cloudVMs.The first component is the Collector Agent whichmust periodically collect information on the state of the network links.The second one is the monitoring agent which must then analyze,classify,and make a decision on the state of the link and finally transmit this information to the scheduler.The third one is the scheduler who must consider previous information to transfer user data,including fair distribution and reliable paths.It should be noted that each part of the proposedmodel requires the development of its algorithms.In this article,we are interested in the development of data transfer algorithms,including fairness distribution with the consideration of a stable link state.These algorithms are based on the grouping of transmitted files and the iterative method.The proposed algorithms showthe performances to obtain an approximate solution to the studied problem which is an NP-hard(Non-Polynomial solution)problem.The experimental results show that the best algorithm is the half-grouped minimum excluding(HME),with a percentage of 91.3%,an average deviation of 0.042,and an execution time of 0.001 s.

Hybrid Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization with Evolutionary Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

Task scheduling plays a key role in effectively managing and allocating computing resources to meet various computing tasks in a cloud computing environment.Short execution time and low load imbalance may be the challenges for some algorithms in resource scheduling scenarios.In this work,the Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization-Evolutionary Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm(HPSO-EABC)has been proposed,which hybrids our presented Evolutionary Artificial Bee Colony(EABC),and Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization(HPSO)algorithm.The HPSO-EABC algorithm incorporates both the advantages of the HPSO and the EABC algorithm.Comprehensive testing including evaluations of algorithm convergence speed,resource execution time,load balancing,and operational costs has been done.The results indicate that the EABC algorithm exhibits greater parallelism compared to the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm.Compared with the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm,the HPSO algorithmnot only improves the global search capability but also effectively mitigates getting stuck in local optima.As a result,the hybrid HPSO-EABC algorithm demonstrates significant improvements in terms of stability and convergence speed.Moreover,it exhibits enhanced resource scheduling performance in both homogeneous and heterogeneous environments,effectively reducing execution time and cost,which also is verified by the ablation experimental.

MCWOA Scheduler:Modified Chimp-Whale Optimization Algorithm for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing provides a diverse and adaptable resource pool over the internet,allowing users to tap into various resources as needed.It has been seen as a robust solution to relevant challenges.A significant delay can hamper the performance of IoT-enabled cloud platforms.However,efficient task scheduling can lower the cloud infrastructure’s energy consumption,thus maximizing the service provider’s revenue by decreasing user job processing times.The proposed Modified Chimp-Whale Optimization Algorithm called Modified Chimp-Whale Optimization Algorithm(MCWOA),combines elements of the Chimp Optimization Algorithm(COA)and the Whale Optimization Algorithm(WOA).To enhance MCWOA’s identification precision,the Sobol sequence is used in the population initialization phase,ensuring an even distribution of the population across the solution space.Moreover,the traditional MCWOA’s local search capabilities are augmented by incorporating the whale optimization algorithm’s bubble-net hunting and random search mechanisms into MCWOA’s position-updating process.This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a two-story rigid frame and a simply supported beam model.Simulated outcomes reveal that the new method outperforms the original MCWOA,especially in multi-damage detection scenarios.MCWOA excels in avoiding false positives and enhancing computational speed,making it an optimal choice for structural damage detection.The efficiency of the proposed MCWOA is assessed against metrics such as energy usage,computational expense,task duration,and delay.The simulated data indicates that the new MCWOA outpaces other methods across all metrics.The study also references the Whale Optimization Algorithm(WOA),Chimp Algorithm(CA),Ant Lion Optimizer(ALO),Genetic Algorithm(GA)and Grey Wolf Optimizer(GWO).

Analysis of Secured Cloud Data Storage Model for Information

This paper was motivated by the existing problems of Cloud Data storage in Imo State University, Nigeria such as outsourced data causing the loss of data and misuse of customer information by unauthorized users or hackers, thereby making customer/client data visible and unprotected. Also, this led to enormous risk of the clients/customers due to defective equipment, bugs, faulty servers, and specious actions. The aim if this paper therefore is to analyze a secure model using Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) base 64 algorithms for storage of data in cloud securely. The methodology used was Object Orientated Hypermedia Analysis and Design Methodology (OOHADM) was adopted. Python was used to develop the security model;the role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enhance security Algorithm were integrated into the Information System developed with HTML 5, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) version 3 and PHP7. This paper also discussed some of the following concepts;Development of Computing in Cloud, Characteristics of computing, Cloud deployment Model, Cloud Service Models, etc. The results showed that the proposed enhanced security model for information systems of cooperate platform handled multiple authorization and authentication menace, that only one login page will direct all login requests of the different modules to one Single Sign On Server (SSOS). This will in turn redirect users to their requested resources/module when authenticated, leveraging on the Geo-location integration for physical location validation. The emergence of this newly developed system will solve the shortcomings of the existing systems and reduce time and resources incurred while using the existing system.

Computation Partitioning in Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey

Mobile devices are increasingly interacting with clouds,and mobile cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm.An central topic in mobile cloud computing is computation partitioning,which involves partitioning the execution of applications between the mobile side and cloud side so that execution cost is minimized.This paper discusses computation partitioning in mobile cloud computing.We first present the background and system models of mobile cloud computation partitioning systems.We then describe and compare state-of-the-art mobile computation partitioning in terms of application modeling,profiling,optimization,and implementation.We point out the main research issues and directions and summarize our own works.

Improvised Seagull Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Tasks in Heterogeneous Cloud Environment

Well organized datacentres with interconnected servers constitute the cloud computing infrastructure.User requests are submitted through an interface to these servers that provide service to them in an on-demand basis.The scientific applications that get executed at cloud by making use of the heterogeneous resources being allocated to them in a dynamic manner are grouped under NP hard problem category.Task scheduling in cloud poses numerous challenges impacting the cloud performance.If not handled properly,user satisfaction becomes questionable.More recently researchers had come up with meta-heuristic type of solutions for enriching the task scheduling activity in the cloud environment.The prime aim of task scheduling is to utilize the resources available in an optimal manner and reduce the time span of task execution.An improvised seagull optimization algorithm which combines the features of the Cuckoo search(CS)and seagull optimization algorithm(SOA)had been proposed in this work to enhance the performance of the scheduling activity inside the cloud computing environment.The proposed algorithm aims to minimize the cost and time parameters that are spent during task scheduling in the heterogeneous cloud environment.Performance evaluation of the proposed algorithm had been performed using the Cloudsim 3.0 toolkit by comparing it with Multi objective-Ant Colony Optimization(MO-ACO),ACO and Min-Min algorithms.The proposed SOA-CS technique had produced an improvement of 1.06%,4.2%,and 2.4%for makespan and had reduced the overall cost to the extent of 1.74%,3.93%and 2.77%when compared with PSO,ACO,IDEA algorithms respectively when 300 vms are considered.The comparative simulation results obtained had shown that the proposed improvised seagull optimization algorithm fares better than other contemporaries.

Representing Increasing Virtual Machine Security Strategy in Cloud Computing Computations

This paper proposes algorithm for Increasing Virtual Machine Security Strategy in Cloud Computing computations.Imbalance between load and energy has been one of the disadvantages of old methods in providing server and hosting,so that if two virtual severs be active on a host and energy load be more on a host,it would allocated the energy of other hosts(virtual host)to itself to stay steady and this option usually leads to hardware overflow errors and users dissatisfaction.This problem has been removed in methods based on cloud processing but not perfectly,therefore,providing an algorithm not only will implement a suitable security background but also it will suitably divide energy consumption and load balancing among virtual severs.The proposed algorithm is compared with several previously proposed Security Strategy including SC-PSSF,PSSF and DEEAC.Comparisons show that the proposed method offers high performance computing,efficiency and consumes lower energy in the network.

Internet of things intrusion detection model and algorithm based on cloud computing and multi-feature extraction extreme learning machine

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things(IoT),there are several challenges pertaining to security in IoT applications.Compared with the characteristics of the traditional Internet,the IoT has many problems,such as large assets,complex and diverse structures,and lack of computing resources.Traditional network intrusion detection systems cannot meet the security needs of IoT applications.In view of this situation,this study applies cloud computing and machine learning to the intrusion detection system of IoT to improve detection performance.Usually,traditional intrusion detection algorithms require considerable time for training,and these intrusion detection algorithms are not suitable for cloud computing due to the limited computing power and storage capacity of cloud nodes;therefore,it is necessary to study intrusion detection algorithms with low weights,short training time,and high detection accuracy for deployment and application on cloud nodes.An appropriate classification algorithm is a primary factor for deploying cloud computing intrusion prevention systems and a prerequisite for the system to respond to intrusion and reduce intrusion threats.This paper discusses the problems related to IoT intrusion prevention in cloud computing environments.Based on the analysis of cloud computing security threats,this study extensively explores IoT intrusion detection,cloud node monitoring,and intrusion response in cloud computing environments by using cloud computing,an improved extreme learning machine,and other methods.We use the Multi-Feature Extraction Extreme Learning Machine(MFE-ELM)algorithm for cloud computing,which adds a multi-feature extraction process to cloud servers,and use the deployed MFE-ELM algorithm on cloud nodes to detect and discover network intrusions to cloud nodes.In our simulation experiments,a classical dataset for intrusion detection is selected as a test,and test steps such as data preprocessing,feature engineering,model training,and result analysis are performed.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect and identify most network data packets with good model performance and achieve efficient intrusion detection for heterogeneous data of the IoT from cloud nodes.Furthermore,it can enable the cloud server to discover nodes with serious security threats in the cloud cluster in real time,so that further security protection measures can be taken to obtain the optimal intrusion response strategy for the cloud cluster.

Optimization Task Scheduling Using Cooperation Search Algorithm for Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Systems

Cloud computing has taken over the high-performance distributed computing area,and it currently provides on-demand services and resource polling over the web.As a result of constantly changing user service demand,the task scheduling problem has emerged as a critical analytical topic in cloud computing.The primary goal of scheduling tasks is to distribute tasks to available processors to construct the shortest possible schedule without breaching precedence restrictions.Assignments and schedules of tasks substantially influence system operation in a heterogeneous multiprocessor system.The diverse processes inside the heuristic-based task scheduling method will result in varying makespan in the heterogeneous computing system.As a result,an intelligent scheduling algorithm should efficiently determine the priority of every subtask based on the resources necessary to lower the makespan.This research introduced a novel efficient scheduling task method in cloud computing systems based on the cooperation search algorithm to tackle an essential task and schedule a heterogeneous cloud computing problem.The basic idea of thismethod is to use the advantages of meta-heuristic algorithms to get the optimal solution.We assess our algorithm’s performance by running it through three scenarios with varying numbers of tasks.The findings demonstrate that the suggested technique beats existingmethods NewGenetic Algorithm(NGA),Genetic Algorithm(GA),Whale Optimization Algorithm(WOA),Gravitational Search Algorithm(GSA),and Hybrid Heuristic and Genetic(HHG)by 7.9%,2.1%,8.8%,7.7%,3.4%respectively according to makespan.

A Secure Rotation Invariant LBP Feature Computation in Cloud Environment

In the era of big data,outsourcing massive data to a remote cloud server is a promising approach.Outsourcing storage and computation services can reduce storage costs and computational burdens.However,public cloud storage brings about new privacy and security concerns since the cloud servers can be shared by multiple users.Privacy-preserving feature extraction techniques are an effective solution to this issue.Because the Rotation Invariant Local Binary Pattern(RILBP)has been widely used in various image processing fields,we propose a new privacy-preserving outsourcing computation of RILBP over encrypted images in this paper(called PPRILBP).To protect image content,original images are encrypted using block scrambling,pixel circular shift,and pixel diffusion when uploaded to the cloud server.It is proved that RILBP features remain unchanged before and after encryption.Moreover,the server can directly extract RILBP features from encrypted images.Analyses and experiments confirm that the proposed scheme is secure and effective,and outperforms previous secure LBP feature computing methods.

Fuzzy Firefly Based Intelligent Algorithm for Load Balancing inMobile Cloud Computing

This paper presents a novel fuzzy firefly-based intelligent algorithm for load balancing in mobile cloud computing while reducing makespan.The proposed technique implicitly acts intelligently by using inherent traits of fuzzy and firefly.It automatically adjusts its behavior or converges depending on the information gathered during the search process and objective function.It works for 3-tier architecture,including cloudlet and public cloud.As cloudlets have limited resources,fuzzy logic is used for cloudlet selection using capacity and waiting time as input.Fuzzy provides human-like decisions without using any mathematical model.Firefly is a powerful meta-heuristic optimization technique to balance diversification and solution speed.It balances the load on cloud and cloudlet while minimizing makespan and execution time.However,it may trap in local optimum;levy flight can handle it.Hybridization of fuzzy fireflywith levy flight is a novel technique that provides reduced makespan,execution time,and Degree of imbalance while balancing the load.Simulation has been carried out on the Cloud Analyst platform with National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)and Clarknet datasets.Results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms Ant Colony Optimization Queue Decision Maker(ACOQDM),Distributed Scheduling Optimization Algorithm(DSOA),andUtility-based Firefly Algorithm(UFA)when compared in terms of makespan,Degree of imbalance,and Figure of Merit.

Towards a blockchain-SDN-based secure architecture for cloud computing in smart industrial IoT

Some of the significant new technologies researched in recent studies include BlockChain(BC),Software Defined Networking(SDN),and Smart Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT).All three technologies provide data integrity,confidentiality,and integrity in their respective use cases(especially in industrial fields).Additionally,cloud computing has been in use for several years now.Confidential information is exchanged with cloud infrastructure to provide clients with access to distant resources,such as computing and storage activities in the IIoT.There are also significant security risks,concerns,and difficulties associated with cloud computing.To address these challenges,we propose merging BC and SDN into a cloud computing platform for the IIoT.This paper introduces“DistB-SDCloud”,an architecture for enhanced cloud security for smart IIoT applications.The proposed architecture uses a distributed BC method to provide security,secrecy,privacy,and integrity while remaining flexible and scalable.Customers in the industrial sector benefit from the dispersed or decentralized,and efficient environment of BC.Additionally,we described an SDN method to improve the durability,stability,and load balancing of cloud infrastructure.The efficacy of our SDN and BC-based implementation was experimentally tested by using various parameters including throughput,packet analysis,response time,bandwidth,and latency analysis,as well as the monitoring of several attacks on the system itself.

Cloud computing-enabled IIOT system for neurosurgical simulation using augmented reality data acces

In recent years,statistics have indicated that the number of patients with malignant brain tumors has increased sharply.However,most surgeons still perform surgical training using the traditional autopsy and prosthesis model,which encounters many problems,such as insufficient corpse resources,low efficiency,and high cost.With the advent of the 5G era,a wide range of Industrial Internet of Things(IIOT)applications have been developed.Virtual Reality(VR)and Augmented Reality(AR)technologies that emerged with 5G are developing rapidly for intelligent medical training.To address the challenges encountered during neurosurgery training,and combining with cloud computing,in this paper,a highly immersive AR-based brain tumor neurosurgery remote collaborative virtual surgery training system is developed,in which a VR simulator is embedded.The system enables real-time remote surgery training interaction through 5G transmission.Six experts and 18 novices were invited to participate in the experiment to verify the system.Subsequently,the two simulators were evaluated using face and construction validation methods.The results obtained by training the novices 50 times were further analyzed using the Learning Curve-Cumulative Sum(LC-CUSUM)evaluation method to validate the effectiveness of the two simulators.The results of the face and content validation demonstrated that the AR simulator in the system was superior to the VR simulator in terms of vision and scene authenticity,and had a better effect on the improvement of surgical skills.Moreover,the surgical training scheme proposed in this paper is effective,and the remote collaborative training effect of the system is ideal.

Survey on Task Scheduling Optimization Strategy under Multi-Cloud Environment

Cloud computing technology is favored by users because of its strong computing power and convenient services.At the same time,scheduling performance has an extremely efficient impact on promoting carbon neutrality.Currently,scheduling research in the multi-cloud environment aims to address the challenges brought by business demands to cloud data centers during peak hours.Therefore,the scheduling problem has promising application prospects under themulti-cloud environment.This paper points out that the currently studied scheduling problems in the multi-cloud environment mainly include independent task scheduling and workflow task scheduling based on the dependencies between tasks.This paper reviews the concepts,types,objectives,advantages,challenges,and research status of task scheduling in the multi-cloud environment.Task scheduling strategies proposed in the existing related references are analyzed,discussed,and summarized,including research motivation,optimization algorithm,and related objectives.Finally,the research status of the two kinds of task scheduling is compared,and several future important research directions of multi-cloud task scheduling are proposed.

Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning on Big Data in Cloud

In the analysis of big data,deep learn-ing is a crucial technique.Big data analysis tasks are typically carried out on the cloud since it offers strong computer capabilities and storage areas.Nev-ertheless,there is a contradiction between the open nature of the cloud and the demand that data own-ers maintain their privacy.To use cloud resources for privacy-preserving data training,a viable method must be found.A privacy-preserving deep learning model(PPDLM)is suggested in this research to ad-dress this preserving issue.To preserve data privacy,we first encrypted the data using homomorphic en-cryption(HE)approach.Moreover,the deep learn-ing algorithm’s activation function—the sigmoid func-tion—uses the least-squares method to process non-addition and non-multiplication operations that are not allowed by homomorphic.Finally,experimental re-sults show that PPDLM has a significant effect on the protection of data privacy information.Compared with Non-Privacy Preserving Deep Learning Model(NPPDLM),PPDLM has higher computational effi-ciency.

Optimal Fuzzy Logic Enabled Intrusion Detection for Secure IoT-Cloud Environment

Recently,Internet of Things(IoT)devices have developed at a faster rate and utilization of devices gets considerably increased in day to day lives.Despite the benefits of IoT devices,security issues remain challenging owing to the fact that most devices do not include memory and computing resources essential for satisfactory security operation.Consequently,IoT devices are vulnerable to different kinds of attacks.A single attack on networking system/device could result in considerable data to data security and privacy.But the emergence of artificial intelligence(AI)techniques can be exploited for attack detection and classification in the IoT environment.In this view,this paper presents novel metaheuristics feature selection with fuzzy logic enabled intrusion detection system(MFSFL-IDS)in the IoT environment.The presented MFSFL-IDS approach purposes for recognizing the existence of intrusions and accomplish security in the IoT environment.To achieve this,the MFSFL-IDS model employs data pre-processing to transform the data into useful format.Besides,henry gas solubility optimization(HGSO)algorithm is applied as a feature selection approach to derive useful feature vectors.Moreover,adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system(ANFIS)technique was utilized for the recognition and classification of intrusions in the network.Finally,binary bat algorithm(BBA)is exploited for adjusting parameters involved in the ANFIS model.A comprehensive experimental validation of the MFSFL-IDS model is carried out using benchmark dataset and the outcomes are assessed under distinct aspects.The experimentation outcomes highlighted the superior performance of the MFSFL-IDS model over recentapproaches with maximum accuracy of 99.80%.

A Cloud Framework for High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping from Radar and Optical Satellite Imageries

Soil moisture plays an important role in crop yield estimation,irrigation management,etc.Remote sensing technology has potential for large-scale and high spatial soil moisture mapping.However,offline remote sensing data processing is time-consuming and resource-intensive,and significantly hampers the efficiency and timeliness of soil moisture mapping.Due to the high-speed computing capabilities of remote sensing cloud platforms,a High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture Estimation Framework(HSRSMEF)based on the Google Earth Engine(GEE)platform was developed in this study.The functions of the HSRSMEF include research area and input datasets customization,radar speckle noise filtering,optical-radar image spatio-temporal matching,soil moisture retrieving,soil moisture visualization and exporting.This paper tested the performance of HSRSMEF by combining Sentinel-1,Sentinel-2 images and insitu soil moisture data in the central farmland area of Jilin Province,China.Reconstructed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI)based on the Savitzky-Golay algorithm conforms to the crop growth cycle,and its correlation with the original NDVI is about 0.99(P<0.001).The soil moisture accuracy of the random forest model(R 2=0.942,RMSE=0.013 m3/m3)is better than that of the water cloud model(R 2=0.334,RMSE=0.091 m3/m3).HSRSMEF transfers time-consuming offline operations to cloud computing platforms,achieving rapid and simplified high spatial resolution soil moisture mapping.

Lightweight Storage Framework for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Things Under Cloud Computing

Due to its decentralized,tamper-proof,and trust-free characteristics,blockchain is used in the Internet of Things(IoT)to guarantee the reliability of data.However,some technical flaws in blockchain itself prevent the development of these applications,such as the issue with linearly growing storage capacity of blockchain systems.On the other hand,there is a lack of storage resources for sensor devices in IoT,and numerous sensor devices will generate massive data at ultra-high speed,which makes the storage problem of the IoT enabled by blockchain more prominent.There are various solutions to reduce the storage burden by modifying the blockchain’s storage policy,but most of them do not consider the willingness of peers.In attempt to make the blockchain more compatible with the IoT,this paper proposes a storage optimization scheme that revisits the system data storage problem from amore practically oriented standpoint.Peers will only store transactional data that they are directly involved in.In addition,a transaction verification model is developed to enable peers to undertake transaction verification with the aid of cloud computing,and an incentive mechanism is premised on the storage optimization scheme to assure data integrity.The results of the simulation experiments demonstrate the proposed scheme’s advantage in terms of storage and throughput.