Performance overhead comparison between hypervisor and container based virtualization

Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 955-962

  Li, Zheng ^a   Kihl, Maria ^a   Lu, Qinghua ^b   Andersson, Jens A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud Service; Container; Hypervisor; Performance Overhead; Virtualization Technology

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTAINERS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUALIZATION;

CLOUD SERVICES; EVALUATION RESULTS; HYPERVISOR; PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD; RELATED WORKS; STORAGE TRANSACTIONS; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 85019680506     PISSN: 1550445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AINA.2017.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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