INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND ROBOTICS www.ijrcar.com Vol.3 Issue 9, Pg.: 9-14 September 2015 Sanjay Razdan Page 9 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND ROBOTICS ISSN 2320-7345 INCREASING THE CLOUD PERFORMANCE WITH LOCAL AUTHENTICATION Sanjay Razdan Department of Computer Science and Eng. Mewar University Rajasthan India sanjayrazdan@hotmail.com Abstract: - Cloud computing involves moving the customer data to a remote location which raises some concerns. One such issue is the delay in receiving the user data from the cloud servers. The fact that the users access the cloud using the public network, this delay is inherent. However, we also know that authentication packets flowing from users to service provider consume a significant amount of bandwidth, which also contribute to the delay. We have suggested an authentication mechanism by which users will be authenticated locally and then directed to the cloud server data after successful authentication. This should reduce the response time of the cloud servers. Keywords: Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Model, Cache, Access 1. Introduction Cloud computing has changed the IT architectural model of the organizations. Cloud computing involves moving customer data to the cloud service location. This location can be local or it can be a remote location. Once the organization move their data to the cloud service provider ’s datacenter, they no longer need to maintain their own datacenters. The services are provided by the cloud service provider and the customer need to pay as per the contract. The advantage of this model is that the organizations get rid of the hardware/ software and licensing cost and they can focus on their core business. While cloud commuting model provides corporates with a means to save the cost, it has some issues also. Since the data is moved to a remote location and is no longer connected using local area network, users need to access this data using public shared network. This means that the data will be sent and received using the public network. Thus there will be a delay associated with the response from the cloud .This may cause frustration among the users. Before accessing the data, a user needs to be authenticated by the cloud server, and then response is sent back to the users. This means that in addition to the actual data, the authentication traffic also flows from the users to the cloud service provider which may also contribute to the delay.