Investigation of Properties of ICmetric in Cloud

Abstract

This paper investigates some practical aspects of the employment of measurable features derived from characteristics of given Cloud computing servers for the generation of encryption keys pertaining to the servers, a technique termed ICmetric. The ICmetric technology requires identifying the suitable features in a distributed environment for encryption purpose. Ideally, the nature of the features should be identical for all of the systems considered, while the values of these features should allow for unique identification of each of the system servers. This paper looks at the properties of the server behaviors as a potential ICmetric feature, and explores how the number of its samples being inputted into the ICmetric system affects stability of the system's performance.