VMbuddies: Coordinating live migration of multi-tier applications in cloud environments

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1192-1205

  Liu, Haikun ^a,b   He, Bingsheng ^c  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cloud; live migration; multi tier application; virtual machine

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLOUDS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTENANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; COORDINATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; LIVE MIGRATIONS; MULTI-TIER APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84925105071     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2014.2316152     Document Type: Article

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