IGOD -- Identifying Geolocation of Cloud Datacenter Hosting Mobile User´s Data

We introduce a novel algorithm called IGOD to identify the geolocation of the cloud data center which is hosting the data of a mobile user. IGOD efficiently geo locate any target data center as accurately as possible and is highly cost-effective. It provides audit control and assurance against the cloud storage providers who may relocate mobile customer´s data. We use Planet Lab for our data collection. We compared our approach to the earlier approaches that used Ping delay to predict the geolocation of a target. We claim that IGOD is highly cost-effective.