Eliminating fine grained timers in Xen

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-46

  Vattikonda, Bhanu C ^a   Das, Sambit ^a   Shacham, Hovav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; RDTSC; Side channels; Xen

Indexed keywords

FINE GRAINED; L2 CACHE; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; RDTSC; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SECURITY KERNEL; SIDE-CHANNEL; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TIMING SIGNALS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL-MACHINE MANAGERS; XEN;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80955143535     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046660.2046671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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