Evaluation of Hypervisor Stability towards Insider Attacks

Virtualization technology plays a key role in cloud computing.Thus,the security issues of virtualization tools（hypervisors,emulators,etc.） should be under precise consideration.However,threats of insider attacks are underestimated.The virtualization tools and hypervisors have been poorly protected from this type of attacks.Furthermore,hypervisor is one of the most critical elements in cloud computing infrastructure.Firstly,hypervisor vulnerabilities analysis is provided.Secondly,a formal model of insider attack on hypervisor is developed.Consequently,on the basis of the formal attack model,we propose a new methodology of hypervisor stability evaluation.In this paper,certain security countermeasures are considered that should be integrated in hypervisor software architecture.

A Comparative Study of Conservative and Nonconservative Schemes

For the conservative and non-conservative schemes of nonlinear evolution equations, by taking the two-dimensional shallow water wave equations as an example, a comparative analysis on computational stability is carried out. The relationship between the nonlinear computational stability, the structure of the difference schemes, and the form of initial values is also discussed.

A stability condition for turbulence model:From EMMS model to EMMS-based turbulence model

The closure problem of turbulence is still a challenging issue in turbulence modeling. In this work, a stability condition is used to close turbulence. Specifically, we regard single-phase flow as a mixture of turbulent and non-turbulent fluids, separating the structure of turbulence. Subsequently, according to the picture of the turbulent eddy cascade, the energy contained in turbulent flow is decomposed into different parts and then quantified. A turbulence stability condition, similar to the principle of the energy-minimization multi-scale （EMMS） model for gas-solid systems, is formulated to close the dynamic constraint equa- tions of turbulence, allowing the inhomogeneous structural parameters of turbulence to be optimized. We name this model as the ＂EMMS-based turbulence model＂, and use it to construct the corresponding turbulent viscosity coefficient. To validate the EMMS-based turbulence model, it is used to simulate two classical benchmark problems, lid-driven cavity flow and turbulent flow with forced convection in an empty room, The numerical results show that the EMMS-hased turbulence model improves the accuracy of turbulence modeling due to it considers the principle of compromise in competition between viscosity and inertia.

AN IMPROVED SEMI-IMPLICIT TIME DIFFERENCE SCHEME OF SPECTRAL MODEL AND NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS

In fact,the popular semi-implicit time difference scheme of spectral model still includes some important linear terms using time explicit difference scheme,and the major terms are directly related to fast internal-and external-gravity waves in the atmospheric forecasting equation. Additionally,due to using time difference on two terms at different time.the popular scheme artificially introduces unbalance between pressure gradient force and Coriolis force terms while numerically computing their small difference between large quantities.According to the computational stability analysis conducted to the linear term time difference scheme in simple harmonic motion equation,one improved semi-implicit time difference scheme is also designed in our study.By adopting a kind of revised time-explicit-difference scheme to these linear terms that still included in spectral model governing equations,the defect of spectral model which only partly using semi-implicit integrating scheme can be overcome effectively.Moreover,besides all spectral coefficients of prognostic equations,especially of Helmholtz divergence equation,can be worked out without any numerical iteration,the time-step (computation stability) can also be enlarged (enhanced) by properly introducing an adjustable coefficient.