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<p>Governmental institutions all over the world are trying to increase the level of security of their countries emphasizing the usage Information Technology solutions. We believe that Cloud Computing may strongly help Homeland Security, since it offers a very flexible support for organizing and managing heterogeneous systems, providing huge amount of processing, storing and sensing resources. In this work we introduce a new Cloud architecture able to virtualize different types of sensing environments in virtual sensing elements, logically belonging to Cooperating Clouds. It represents a very flexible solution, which offers seamless, secure and advanced services to support Homeland Security.</p>
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Governmental institutions all over the world are trying to increase the level of security of their countries emphasizing the usage Information Technology solutions. We believe that Cloud Computing may strongly help Homeland Security, since it offers a very flexible support for organizing and managing heterogeneous systems, providing huge amount of processing, storing and sensing resources. In this work we introduce a new Cloud architecture able to virtualize different types of sensing environments in virtual sensing elements, logically belonging to Cooperating Clouds. It represents a very flexible solution, which offers seamless, secure and advanced services to support Homeland Security.

Hscloud: Cloud Architecture for Supporting Homeland Security

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Governmental institutions all over the world are trying to increase the level of security of their countries emphasizing the usage Information Technology...

Hscloud: Cloud Architecture for Supporting Homeland Security

Published Online: Mar 01, 2012

Page range: 246 - 276

Received: Feb 21, 2012

Accepted: Feb 22, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-480

© 2012 M. Fazio et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.