Detecting VMs co-residency in the cloud: Using cache-based side channel attacks

Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 73-78

  Yu, Si ^a   Gui, Xiaolin ^a   Lin, Jiancai ^a   Zhang, Xuejun ^a,b   Wang, Junfei ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Co residency detection; Side channel attack; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877939689     PISSN: 13921215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5755/j01.eee.19.5.2422     Document Type: Article

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