identification and evaluation of sharing memory covert timing channel in xen virtual machines

	identification and evaluation of sharing memory covert timing channel in xen virtual machines
	Wu Jing Zheng ; Ding Liping ; Wang Yongji ; Han Wei
	2011
会议名称	2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011
会议日期	4-Jul-20
会议地点	Washington, DC, United states
关键词	Virtual reality
页码	283-291
英文摘要	Virtualization technology is the basis of cloud computing, and the most important property of virtualization is isolation. Isolation guarantees security between virtual machines. However, covert channel breaks the isolation and leaks sensitive message covertly. In this paper, we formally model the isolation into noninterference, and define that all the transmission channels violating noninterference are covert channels. With this definition, we present an identification method based on information flow. This method first compiles the source code into a more structured equivalent code with LLVM. And then a search algorithm is proposed to obtain the shared resources and the operational processes in the equivalent code. A new covert channel termed sharing memory covert timing channel (SMCTC) is identified from Xen source code. We construct channel scenario for SMCTC, and evaluate its threat with the metrics of channel capacity and transmission accuracy. The results show that SMCTC is much more threatened than CPU load based and cache based covert channels etc. © 2011 IEEE.
收录类别	EI
会议主办者	IEEE; IEEE CS; TC-SVC; IBM; SAP
会议录	Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011
会议录出版地	United States
ISBN号	9780769544601
内容类型	会议论文
源URL	[http://124.16.136.157/handle/311060/14281]
专题	软件研究所_互联网软件技术实验室 _会议论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu Jing Zheng,Ding Liping,Wang Yongji,et al. identification and evaluation of sharing memory covert timing channel in xen virtual machines[C]. 见:2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011. Washington, DC, United states. 4-Jul-20.