Journal of Cyber Security and Risk Auditing

ISSN: 3079-5354 (Online)

Framework for Node Detection in Cloud Computing: A Multi-Metric Approach Integrating Security, Availability, and Latency Factors

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Ahmed Alruwaili ;

Mohammed Maayah

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Published: 2025

Abstract

The imperative to ascertain the operational integrity and fortify the security of individual nodes within expansive cloud computing infrastructures underpins the very feasibility of delivering dependable services and averting cascading systemic failures. This research delineates a sophisticated, equation-based framework meticulously engineered for node detection, which articulates and assesses node behavior through a rigorous mathematical formalization integrating salient performance and security determinants. The articulated model synthesizes metrics including operational delay, service availability, authentication success probabilities, and quantified security anomalies into a cohesive detection apparatus. Through systematic solution and perpetual re-evaluation of these constitutive equations, the system dynamically discerns aberrant, compromised, or overtly malicious nodes with substantially augmented acuity. This framework ingeniously employs principles derived from linear systems theory, probabilistic reasoning, and optimization paradigms to precisely quantify departures from normative node operational envelopes. Comprehensive simulation experiments, executed across a spectrum of variegated cloud deployment scenarios, convincingly substantiate the framework’s proficiency in achieving early-stage anomaly identification, concurrently safeguarding systemic performance benchmarks and curtailing the incidence of erroneous positive identifications. Such an equation-centric paradigm proffers a computationally lean and eminently scalable alternative to prevalent, often resource-intensive, monitoring architectures, thereby materially advancing the ongoing pursuit of more resilient and secure cloud ecosystems

Keywords

CybersecurityCloud computingNode detectionMulti-Metric Approach

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