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BAC: Bandwidth-aware compression for efficient live migration of virtual machines

  • Chunguang Li
  • , Dan Feng*
  • , Yu Hua
  • , Wen Xia
  • , Leihua Qin
  • , Yue Huang
  • , Yukun Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

Live migration of virtual machines (VM) is one of the key characteristics of virtualization for load balancing, system maintenance, power management, etc., in data centers or clusters. In order to reduce the data transferred and shorten the migration time, the compression techniques have been widely used to accelerate VM migration. However, different compression approaches have different compression ratios and speeds. Because there is a trade-off between compression and transmission, the migration performance improvements obtained from different compression approaches are differentiated, and the improvements vary with the network bandwidth. Besides, the compression window sizes used in most compression algorithms are typically much larger than a single page size, so the traditional single page compression loses some potential compression benefits. In this paper, we design and implement a Bandwidth-Aware Compression (BAC) scheme for VM migration. BAC chooses suitable compression approach according to the network bandwidth available for the migration process, and employs multi-page compression. These features make BAC obtain more migration performance improvements from compression. Experiments under various network scenarios demonstrate that, compared with conventional compression approaches, BAC shortens the total migration time while achieving comparable performance for the total data transferred and the downtime.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINFOCOM 2017 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509053360
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2017 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: 1 May 20174 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period1/05/174/05/17

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