Hypervisor-assisted application checkpointing in virtualized environments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 371-382

  Lee, Min ^a   Krishnakumar, A S ^b   Krishnan, P ^b   Singh, Navjot ^b   Yajnik, Shalini ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

checkpointing; high availabiliy; hypervisor; virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

CHECK POINTING; HIGH-AVAILABILIY; HYPERVISOR; VIRTUALIZATIONS; XEN;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80051951907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2011.5958250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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