Fast network flow resumption for live virtual machine migration on SDN

Sai Qian Zhang, Pouya Yasrebi, Ali Tizghadam, Hadi Bannazadeh, Alberto Leon-Garcia

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Abstract

Virtual machine (VM) migration occurs very frequently in cloud computing. VM Migration enables a running OS, including memory and storage to move from one physical host to another physical host. A particular case of interest is live migration where the process of migrating the full state from one OS to the other should happen continuously and without any connection disruption. In order to have a seamless VM migration process the system has to be able to resume network connectivity very quickly. Fast resumption has proved to be a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a scheme to efficiently to migrate VMs networking resources using SDN techniques to achieve fast network flow resumption on SDN. We formulate the problem by an integer programming problem, we prove its NP-completeness and we propose a heuristic algorithm to solve the problem. Software simulation and real testbed implementation are done to demonstrate the performance of the flow migration scheme.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages446-452
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781467382953
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 18 2016
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2015 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Nov 10 2015Nov 13 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
Volume2016-March
ISSN (Print)1092-1648

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period11/10/1511/13/15

Keywords

  • Software Defined Networking
  • Virtual Machine Migration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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