Title
Architectural support of multiple hypervisors over single platform for enhancing cloud computing security
Abstract
This paper presents MultiHype, a novel architecture that supports multiple hypervisors (or virtual machine monitors) on a single physical platform by leveraging many-core based cloud-on-chip architecture. A MultiHype platform consists of a control plane and multiple hypervisors created on-demand, each can further create multiple guest virtual machines. Supported at architectural level, a single platform using MultiHype can behave as a distributed system with each hypervisor and its virtual machines running independently and concurrently. As a direct consequence, vulnerabilities of one hypervisor or its guest virtual machine can be confined within its own domain, which makes the platform more resilient to malicious attacks and failures in a cloud environment. Towards defending against resource exhaustion attacks, MultiHype further implements a new cache eviction policy and memory management scheme for preventing resource monopolization on shared cache, and defending against denial of resource exploits on physical memory resource launched from malicious virtual machines on shared platform. We use Bochs emulator and cycle based x86 simulation to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of MultiHype.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2212908.2212920
Conf. Computing Frontiers
Keywords
Field
DocType
architectural support,single platform,single physical platform,shared platform,multiple hypervisors,physical memory resource,virtual machine,malicious virtual machine,guest virtual machine,multihype platform,cloud computing security,virtual machine monitor,architecture,chip,cloud computing,security,virtualization,distributed system,scalability,memory management
Virtualization,Virtual machine,Computer science,Hypervisor,Data diffusion machine,Real-time computing,Memory management,Full virtualization,Storage hypervisor,Parallel computing,Operating system,Cloud computing,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weidong Shi133141.44
JongHyuk Lee29710.51
Taeweon Suh317122.47
Dong Hyuk Woo457629.55
Xinwen Zhang569746.90