A Survey on Tracing for Default of Cloud Service

After the default of cloud service, tracing can provide evidence for the final determination of responsibility attribution dispute. This paper surveys the research status of tracing towards cloud service accountability mechanism. This paper first reviews the research status of tracing; Secondly, summarizes the classification of cloud service default and its tracing; Thirdly, analyzes two essential differences between attack tracing and responsibility tracing, and then clarify that the existing results of tracing are difficult to directly apply to the tracing research of cloud services default; Finally, cloud service accountability is oriented to suggests on the research approach of default tracing are given.