Big Data Challenges in IoT & Cloud

This report analyses the challenges and issues faced by big data technology in IoT and cloud computing. It includes an annotated bibliography of various research papers and their findings. The main focus is on the security threats and prevention methods to avoid them.

Big data challenges in IoT and cloud

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1. Analysis of the task
Big data is an advanced information technology that provides a platform to
analyse and control a large amount of data. Today, most organizations used this
approach to handle consumer’s data or information because it has the ability to
maintain both unstructured and structured data (Antonopoulos, & Gillam, 2010). The
main aim of this paper is to analyse the important perception of big data and challenges
or issues faced by big data in the cloud and IoT.
We have chosen “big data challenges in IoT and cloud” topic for this report and it
will divide into main four sections such as analysis the task, literature review, introduce
the problem or challenges and final report.
Problem statement: Discuss the issues and challenges faced by big data
technology in IoT and cloud computing.
Annotated bibliography
Kumari, S., & Guruprasad H. S. (2015). Integration of IOT, Cloud and Big Data,
Global Journal of Engineering Science and Researches, 2(7), 251-258.
The title of this journal paper is Integration of IOT, Cloud and Big Data that was
written by suchetha kumara and H.S. guruprasad. The main goal of this paper is to
comprehend the idea of big data in IoT and cloud with their challenges. In which the
author describes the overview of modern technologies used in cloud and IoT and
security challenges faced by big data approach in IoT and cloud. According to the
author, Iot is defined as a technique which is used to control and manage computer
devices and mobile networks from any location. The main problem faced by this
technology is security due to which many cyber-attacks occur such as ransom ware,
DDOS attack and malware attack. To avoid such kind of issues researcher identify new
approaches, for example, firewall, encryption and many more but the main drawback of
this article is that the author did not provide a proper explanation of cyber-severity
threats.
Yang, C., Huang, Q., Li, Z., Liu, K., & Hu, F. (2017). Big Data and cloud computing:
innovation opportunities and challenges. International Journal of Digital
Earth, 10(1), 13-53.
This article was written by four researchers such as Chaowei Yang, Qunying
Huang, Zhenlong Li, and Kai Liu. According to author big data is an advanced technology
that changed the way of data analysis and it also increases the decision making the
process by which business industries can enhance their efficiency. The key aim of this
paper is to describe innovation occasions and threats faced by big data technique and
cloud. In this modern generation, big data faced different types of challenges, for
example, storing data, process huge data, and transportation issues and data analyst

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problem. This journal article reviews the main 2 boundaries such as big data process
and cloud and also analysis the benefit and drawbacks of these technologies with their
security threats.
Kumar, M. P., Santhoshkumar, S. P., Gowdhaman, T., & Shajahaan, S. S. (2017). A
SURVEY ON IoT PERFORMANCES IN BIG DATA, International Journal of Computer
Science and Mobile Computing, 6(10), 26-34.
The title of this journal paper is A SURVEY ON IoT PERFORMANCES IN BIG DATA
that is completely based on security issues faced by IoT and big data. This paper was
provided by Praveen Kumar, santhosh Kumar, gowdhaman and Syed shajahaan and the
main importance of this journal is to evaluate the performance of IoT in large data. The
IoT is distinct as a computer system that interconnects two or more peripheral devices
by using internet connectivity and it plays a vital part in big data but it associated with
some security issues like cyber-crimes and data breach. In which the author conducted
a survey to gather relevant information about the research topic and also discussed the
big data problems in Iot and cloud based technique.
Bhanu M., & Koushik A. (2017). A study of big data analytics in the cloud with a
security perspective, an international journal of engineering research and
technology, 6(1), 12-18.
The title of this paper is a education of big data analytics in the cloud technology
with a safety viewpoint that was written by bhanu Sridhar and A. koushik. The main aim
of this article is to enquiry the big data approach and the importance of cloud in big data
method. According to M. bhanu big data is one of the best approaches that have the
ability to analysis both unstructured and structured data. The main advantage of this
technology is that small and large business can handle any kind of data and cloud
computing is used to store these data sets. This paper provides a summary of big data
and cloud innovation with their challenges and limitations but the main disadvantage of
this journal is that the investigator did not explain the mitigation process to handle their
problems.
Mathur, N., & Purohit, R. (2017). Issues and challenges in the convergence of big
data, cloud and data science. International Journal of Computer
Applications, 160(9), 14-18.
This article was written by neha mathur and Rajesh purohit and it is completely
based on issues and threats faced by large data technology in Iot and cloud. According to
the author, big data is defined as a trend that includes different kinds of data sets and
many organizations are using this approach to analysis consumer’s data. The chief
purpose of this article is to define the importance of big data process and security
related issues and challenges faced by this technology. To stock, analysis and process
the huge quantity data people can adopt cloud-based services and big data is

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unimaginable without cloud computing. There are many advantages of this article, for
example, the author described big data in detail, also evaluated key factors that increase
security-threats and they used both quantitative and qualitative method to gather
relevant data. According to a researcher there are various kinds of issues occur in this
technology, for example, storage issues, data transportation problems, data
management issues, processing issue and security-related issues which are described in
this paper.
Alansari, Z., Anuar, N. B., Kamsin, A., Soomro, S., Belgaum, M. R., Miraz, M. H., &
Alshaer, J. (2018, August). Challenges of the Internet of Things and Big Data
Integration. In International Conference for Emerging Technologies in Computing,
8(2), pp. 47-55.
The title of this research paper is the issues of the IoT and Big Data Integration
which is based on the internet of thing and big data approach. It was developed by many
writers like Zainab Alansari1, Nor Badrul Anuar, Amirrudin Kamsin, Safeeullah Soomro,
Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum, Mahdi H. Miraz, and Jawdat Alshaer. According to this
paper, the IoT is an appropriate process that connects two or more physical devices
with each other by using the internet connection and it uses wireless networks to
transfer data from one person to another. Big data use this approach to handle user’s
data and put it into a computer system by which organization can easily analysis these
data sets. Analysis of large data by using IoT is a very common process which is used by
many government communities but they also faced the issue of security and privacy. In
this article, the author used the qualitative method to analysis the concept of giant data
and provides the compensations of IoT based on big data.
Sarma, K. S., & Raghupathi, M. (2018). SECURITY ISSUES OF BIG DATA IN IOT
BASED APPLICATION, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,
118(14), 221-227.
The title of this article is SECURITY ISSUES OF BIG DATA IN IOT BASED
APPLICATIONS that was introduced by subrahmanya sarma and M. Raghupathi. Today
more of consumers use computer devices and internet to share data or information and
IoT using the cloud is a new approach in which information are transferred through the
internet. Due to increment in electronics and communication technology the use of
social media, emails and transportation services are also growing very fast for which
users required big data technique to handle huge data. The main detached of this
investigation paper is to describe the security related issues of big facts in IoT based
applications. In which author used both qualitative and quantitative research method to
collect the data or information and they also explained limitation of big data.
Thabet, N., & Soomro, T. R. (2015). Big Data Challenges. Journal of Computer
Engineering & Information Technology, 8(2), 12-15.

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This article was published by two writers such as Nasser thabet and tariq Rahim
soomro that provided their views on the topic of big data. The author identified that big
data is the latest technology which is used by an organization to control data sets but it
is very difficult to manage and process the huge data by current software that is a big
problem. The main goal of this journal is to discuss the different types of challenges
faced by big data and mitigation gears to control such issues. Researcher evaluated the
data challenges into main three categorized for example data, management and process
issues which are described in this paper. In which the author uses secondary data
approach to understand the concept of big data and all information collected from
various resources such as previous research, online websites and books. The main
problem faced by the researcher is a collection of data due to which readers are not able
to understand the main key factors that increase the security related problems. In
future, they will address these drawbacks and also identify the security plans by which
such kind of challenges can be addressed.
Zhou, Z. H., Chawla, N. V., Jin, Y., & Williams, G. J. (2014). Big data opportunities
and challenges: Discussions from data analytics perspectives [discussion
forum]. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 9(4), 62-74.
This article was written by Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nitesh V. Chawla, Yaochu Jin, and
Graham J. Williams and they provided their views in the area of large data. The main
goal of this investigation is to analysis the big data opportunities and challenges and
prevention methods to avoid these issues from big data technology. Big data is a very
popular technology which is growing very quickly and it provides a way to handle data
from many consumers which are collected from social media, emails and other sources.
Through this investigation, readers can improve their knowledge and they can study the
security related issues. It is observed that most individuals use third party applications
to store their data due to which the issue of data breach occurs and big data faced such
kinds of problems. The main advantage of this paper is that the researcher provided in
depth analysis by which readers can easily understand the challenges and issues faced
by big data.
Acharjya, D. P., & Ahmed, K. (2016). A survey on big data analytics: challenges,
open research issues and tools. Int. J. Adv. Comput. Sci. Appl, 7(2), 1-11.
The title of this paper is A Survey on Big Data Analytics: Challenges, Open
Research Issues and Tools that was published by D.P. acharjya and Kauser ahmed P.
According to writer a huge massive data is produced every day from various
information systems and Iot and cloud both play a significant role to handle these data.
It is very difficult to analysis these data for which a new approach has been developed
that is big data and by using this technique organization can manage terabyte data. The
main aim of this journal is to explore the potential threats and challenges faced by big
data technique in Iot and cloud computing. This paper provides the best way to describe

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the importance of big data and prevention steps to avoid the issue of cyber-security. The
main advantage of this paper is that the researcher uses both quantitative and
qualitative methods by which the effectiveness of this investigation has increased.
There are main two problem occur in big data for example analysis of data and
processing the huge data due to which people can lose their personal data or
information. The main drawback of this article is that the authors provided only
theoretical information about the research topic and they did not involve any kind of
statistical data or graph.
2. Literature Review
The internet of thing is a kind of technology that connects physical devices with each
other by using internet connectivity. This is a very modern technique that can be used
for communication purpose and many organization uses this process to control and
monitor peripheral devices. Big data is distinct as a data base that handles the huge
amount of data and it has the skill to analysis both unstructured and structured data
sets (Biswas, & Giaffreda, 2014). There are many authors and researcher that provided
their views on this topic and they identified that big data technology faced the issue of
analysis and data processing because it is very difficult to collect human data from
various resources. Botta, De Donato, Persico, & Pescapé, (2016) identified that security
of big data is one of the serious concern in this modern generation due to which
consumers and business industries can lose their personal information. Today many
users use different types of computer and mobile networks by which the use of
information technologies ate growing very fast that also increased cyber-threats and
vulnerabilities. According to Bughin, Chui, & Manyika, (2010) without using big data
analytic approach the volume of data produced by IoT and cloud can increase the
overhead and traffic for any organization. The primary challenge for big data on the
internet of thing is to analyse the consumer's data due to which most of the organization
are not able to handle the data comes from various social media sites and emails (Chen,
et al., 2015). To avoid such kind of issues Chiang, & Zhang, 2016) has been developed
three strategies which are described below:
 Design interface for software and applications that generated before
 Request help from experts that can provide the useable data sets
 Produce statistics with the command of the bodily setting about the commercial
With the help of all these strategies, any organization can solve the issue of data analysis
but they require IT specialists that understand the key factors that increase the issue of
data processing and data management. Díaz, Martín, & Rubio, (2016) investigated that
today the use of internet of thing is growing very rapidly because it provides a platform
to connect any physical object to the network and big data use this concept of control
the consumer data. In the last few years, information and technology changed the way
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analyse and process users data by using sensors and electronic devices (Fang, et al.,
2015). Overseeing huge and quickly increasing volumes of info is a challenging issue.
Flexibility has three angles: Hardware Size and Concurrency, and Data Volume data rate
is increasing at an exponential rate (Yang, Huang, Li, Liu, & Hu, 2017). The logical
preparation of huge info must assistance current and upcoming database. The
descriptive control necessities have the volume to practice gradually growing more
confusing datasets (Gubbi, Buyya, Marusic, & Palaniswami, 2013). A Dispersed and
multipurpose manufacturing need to stock, procedure and divide enormous info. The
abnormal state of simultaneousness required and broad parallel processing is expected
to deal with information. According to Hashem, et al., (2015) security and privacy, both
are also a very serious problem for big data because many consumers use third party
application for communication purpose due to which hackers collect their private
details and block their all documents and data files. Due to lack of security big data faced
many cyber-attacks and data breach problems, for example, denial of services attack,
malware, and sniffers. Jiang, et al., (2014) discussed the security related issues faced by
big data and IoT and they observed that hackers produce large traffic signals and
transfer to the big data networks by which they can easily enter into user’s computing
devices. Therefore, to avoid such kind of problem author provide advanced security
tools like encryption, firewall, and cryptography by which such kind of issues can be
addressed (Lee, & Lee, 2015).
3. Introduce the problem
Big data and IoT both are advanced technologies that provide a platform to
control and monitor a large number of data sets. Big data has the ability to analyse the
structured and unstructured data sets and IoT provides a way to collect data or
information from social media, emails and other sources (Perera, Ranjan, Wang, Khan, &
Zomaya, 2015). Analysis of data is one of the common challenges occurs in big data due
to which users can lose their personal data or information. This section of the research
paper will introduce the problem statement in which the challenges and problems faced
by big data in IoT and cloud will be discussed. It is observed that data analysis is a very
crucial problem for big data because it is very difficult to manage the huge amount of
data in a computer network (Ranjan, 2014). There are many problems and challenges
occur in big data technologies which are described below:
Heterogeneity
In big data technology, the various kinds of data are generated from many
resources such as sensors, IOT, smart devices, social media, emails and many more that
may be structured or unstructured. Few levels of heterogeneity prevail in type,
semantics, structure, and accessibility of the data due to all these kinds of data sets big
data process faced the significant challenges that effect on their performance (Sajid,
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Storage issues
It is one of the common problems occurs in big data because it handles the large
amount of users data which is control by IoT. In the last few years the modern storage
system has been used for storing consumer’s data by structured RDBMS and they are
very limited due to which big data approach cannot store more the 1 terabyte data. To
store and control the huge data sets s storage architecture is required that can be
accessed in a highly efficient manner which is a more costly process due to which big
data is suffering from the storage issues.
Data transportation issue
It would take additional period to transfer the material from an accretion or
capacity opinion that it would to actually process it. Current plate innovation limits are
about four terabytes per bowl. Thus, 1 Exabyte would need 25,000 circles. Irrespective
of whether an Exabyte of info could be touched on a private PC agenda, it cannot exactly
connect the authoritative amount of plates (Xiaofeng, & Xiang, 2013).
Data management issue
Information the executives comprises the build-up and volume of data, in
addition to its treatment and transportation. Evidence the executive’s shelters
numerous info disciplines, counting material warehousing, data mixture, material
excellence, gen management, satisfied management, time handling, and file association
(Stergiou, Psannis, Kim, & Gupta, 2018). Customary information and new enormous
information can vary as far as substance, structure, expected utilizes, and every
classification has numerous varieties inside it. Due to this issue, big data technologies
cannot manage huge data and many organizations faced this problem.
Data processing issue
Speed is a noteworthy interest while controlling an inquiry in large data. In any
case; this may cost a considerable measure of time since it can't navigate all the related
information in the entire database in a short time (Sun, Song, Jara, & Bie, 2016). For this
situation, the list will be an ideal decision. An attractive arrangement will be the mix of
the fitting list for huge information and up and coming pre-processing innovation.
Security issue
This is a very common issue faced by IoT and big data which is increasing very
fast due to the lack of security. Big data deals with different types of data sets and
networks for which they used many software and computer devices to handle big data
sets and hackers send traffic signals to their wireless networks. There are many security
threats occur in big data, for example, sniffer, data breach, ransom ware, and malicious
attack (Wolfert, Ge, Verdouw, & Bogaardt, 2017). To avoid such kind of problem
information technology produced encryption and firewall techniques that provide a
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4. Final Report
Abstract
In the last few years use of electronics devices and equipment are growing very
fast and most the consumers use the internet to communicate with another person due
to which data management issue also occur. To control and manage consumer’s data
information technology developed a new method which is called as big data that can
handle any kind of data sets. IoT and cloud computing both technologies are used big
data to collect data and store into other peripheral device and big data analysis these
data sets as per requirements. This report is completely based on big data issues and
challenges in IoT and cloud and it will be categorized into four sections such as
annotated bibliography, literature review, problem or challenges and final report. In
which both primary and secondary research methods will be used to improve the
effectiveness of research and a literature review will be conducted to collect the views
of other experts. There are main three issues faced by big data, for example, analysis
issue, data management issue and security-related issues that will be discussed in this
report.
Introduction
Security of data is one of the serious problems in this modern generation and use
of information and communication technology is growing very fast. Internet of thing
refers to a technique that controls and monitors computer and mobile devices and it
uses an internet connection to share data or information (Wang, & Ranjan, 2015). Big
data is a new approach that handles the large quantity data sets and it uses IoT
technology to manage and collect data from various resources such as social media,
emails and many more. The main aim of this report is to discuss the large data
challenges in cloud and IoT and methods to improve the security of big data. It is
observed that lack of security is a very common issue due to which many organizations
lost their personal data or information and big data also faced such kind of problem.
This report is explaining the concept of big data, IoT and cloud with their advantages
and limitation and also evaluating the challenges faced by these technologies (Wang, &
Ranjan, 2015).
Conclusion
This research paper is completely based on big data and IoT technology and
through this research reader can improve their awareness in the era of information
technology. It is estimated that in the year 2017 the use of big data has increased by
30% and most of the organization in the world use this approach to analysis and
manage the huge amount of data. The main problem occurs during analysis of data is
that it requires more efforts to collect consumers data and classify into different data
sets. This report described the threats and problems of big data innovation in cloud
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the issue of security information technology implemented new approaches, for example,
firewall, encryption and cryptography by which people can improve the privacy of their
data sets. Consumers should ensure that they use only authentic servers and upgrade
security tools on a regular basis by which the issue of analysis and data management
can be addressed.

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