On improvement of cloud virtual machine availability with virtualization fault tolerance mechanism

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1103-1122

  Yang, Chao Tung ^a   Liu, Jung Chun ^a   Hsu, Ching Hsien ^b   Chou, Wei Li ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; High availability; IaaS; Virtualization; Virtualization fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CLOUD COMPUTING; FAULT TOLERANCE; NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLUSTER-BASED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; HIGH AVAILABILITY; IAAS; MACHINE AVAILABILITY; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; STABILITY AND RELIABILITIES; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES;

VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 84889072058     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-013-1045-1     Document Type: Article

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