Houdini's escape: Breaking the resource rein of linux control groups

X Gao, Z Gu, Z Li, H Jamjoom, C Wang - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Linux Control Groups, ie, cgroups, are the key building blocks to enable operating-system-
level containerization. The cgroups mechanism partitions processes into hierarchical groups …

Ohm's law in data centers: A voltage side channel for timing power attacks

MA Islam, S Ren - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Maliciously-injected power load, aka power attack, has recently surfaced as a new
egregious attack vector for dangerously compromising the data center availability. This …

Ready raider one: Exploring the misuse of cloud gaming services

G Liu, D Liu, S Hao, X Gao, K Sun… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Cloud gaming has become an emerging computing paradigm in recent years, allowing
computer games to offload complex graphics and logic computation to the cloud. To deliver …

Heat behind the meter: A hidden threat of thermal attacks in edge colocation data centers

Z Shao, MA Islam, S Ren - 2021 IEEE International Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread adoption of Internet of Things and latency-critical applications has fueled
the burgeoning development of edge colocation data centers (aka, edge colocation)—small …

The effect of server energy proportionality on data center power oversubscription

S Malla, K Christensen - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Modern data centers improve resource utilization with power oversubscription. The power
hierarchy in a data center is oversubscribed by installing more servers than allowed by the …

Investigating security vulnerabilities in a hot data center with reduced cooling redundancy

X Gao, G Liu, Z Xu, H Wang, L Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers have been growing rapidly in recent years to meet the surging demand of
cloud services. However, the expanding scale and powerful servers generate a great …

AquaSonic: Acoustic Manipulation of Underwater Data Center Operations and Resource Management

J Sheldon, W Zhu, A Abdullah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Underwater datacenters (UDCs) hold promise as next-generation data storage due to their
energy efficiency and environmental sustainability benefits. While the natural cooling …

Understanding the security implication of aborting virtual machine live migration

X Gao, J Xiao, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Live migration of Virtual machines (VMs) has become a regular tool for edge and cloud
operators to facilitate system maintenance, fault tolerance, and load balancing, with little …

An investigation on data center cooling systems using FPGA-based temperature side channels

Y Liang, X Gao, K Sun, W Xiong… - 2022 41st International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As power and cooling cost has become a major factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of
large-scale data centers, it is important to investigate how data centers run their cooling …

Em fingerprints: Towards identifying unauthorized hardware substitutions in the supply chain jungle

C Kolias, D Barbará, C Rieger… - 2020 IEEE Security and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a system capable of branding digital device components based on the
EM signals typically emitted during their normal operational cycles. Such signals contain …