On trustworthiness of CPU usage metering and accounting

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 82-91

  Liu, Mei ^a   Ding, Xuhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attack; CPU time metering; Utility computing

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; BUSINESS MODELS; COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; CPU TIME METERING; EXECUTION INTEGRITY; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; KEY FACTORS; METERING SCHEMES; SERVICE PROVIDER; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; UTILITY COMPUTING; VARIOUS ATTACKS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952034177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2010.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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