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A Covert Channel Bases on CPU Load in Cloud Computing

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Trustworthy Computing and Services (ISCTCS 2013)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 426))

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With the development and application of Cloud Computing, all kinds of products become available for public, but opportunity always along with challenge. Cloud security has become the key problem of restricting the development of cloud computing while we benefit from cloud computing. Virtualization technology is the foundation of cloud computing, its security mainly is cloud security. Covert channel is about information hiding which emphasis on the secret of communication. A malicious user on one virtual machine usually cannot relay secret data to other virtual machines without using explicit communication media due to shared resource between virtual machines. The paper has a deep research of covert channel in cloud computing environment. The channel is working well though experimental tests.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (FRF-TP-13-015A) and the Conjunction Project of Guangdong Province and Ministry of Education on integration of production, education and research (2012B091000052).

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  1. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

    Qian Liu & Qianwen He

  2. College of Science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China

    Yu Zhang

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  1. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Yuyu Yuan

  2. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Xu Wu

  3. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Yueming Lu

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Liu, Q., He, Q., Zhang, Y. (2014). A Covert Channel Bases on CPU Load in Cloud Computing. In: Yuan, Y., Wu, X., Lu, Y. (eds) Trustworthy Computing and Services. ISCTCS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 426. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43908-1_35

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