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A security-awareness virtual machine placement scheme in the cloud

  • Si Yu
  • , Xiaolin Gui
  • , Feng Tian
  • , Pan Yang
  • , Jianqiang Zhao
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University
  • Xian Politics Institute

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Abstract

Recent work reveals that side channel attacks (SCA) can lead to leakage of user privacy in the cloud. Enhancing the isolation between users is an effective solution to eliminate the attacks. However, to achieve the stronger isolation, the existing schemes require the sophisticated decision making systems and specific monitoring systems, which may degrade the efficiency of the system. In this paper, to eliminate the SCA, we investigate the isolation enhancement from a novel perspective - VM placement. And the security-awareness VMs placement scheme (SVMPS) is proposed. In this scheme, we use the aggressive conflict of interest relation (ACIR) to describe the constraint relations for users, based on the Chinese wall policy, we put forward the isolation rules to formulate the VMs placement behavior, according to the isolation rules, we design the VMs placement solution calculated algorithm to enforce the VMs placement. The experimental results demonstrate that SVMPS is efficient in guaranteeing the isolation between conflict users, while the resource utilization rate decreases not too much.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1078-1083
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9780769550886
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013 - Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
Duration: 13 Nov 201315 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhangjiajie, Hunan
Period13/11/1315/11/13

Keywords

  • VM placement
  • cloud computing
  • isolation
  • side channel attacks
  • virtualization security

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