Fast software rejuvenation of virtual machine monitors

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 839-851

  Kourai, Kenichi ^a   Chiba, Shigeru ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

availability; checkpoint restart; main memory; Operating systems; performance.

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; NETWORK SECURITY;

CHECKPOINT/RESTART; CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTS; MAIN MEMORY; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SOFTWARE REJUVENATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS;

VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EID: 80052893571     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2010.20     Document Type: Article

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