Enhancing application robustness in Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds

Author

Mihailescu, Madalin ; Rodriguez, Andres ; Amza, Cristiana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

151

Abstract

We propose OX, a runtime system that uses application-level availability constraints and application topologies discovered on the fly to enhance resilience to infrastructure anomalies for cloud applications. OX allows application owners to specify groups of highly available virtual machines. To discover application topologies, OX monitors network traffic among virtual machines, transparently. Based on this information, OX builds on-line topology graphs for applications and automatically partitions these graphs across the infrastructure to enforce availability constraints and optimize communication between virtual machines.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer centres; graph theory; security of data; virtual machines; OX; application robustness; application topologies; application-level availability constraints; cloud computing; infrastructure anomalies; infrastructure-as-a-service clouds; large-scale virtualized data centers; network traffic; online topology graphs; runtime system; virtual machines; Availability; Interference; Lead; Network topology; Partitioning algorithms; Servers; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 2011 IEEE/IFIP 41st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0374-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0373-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSNW.2011.5958801

Filename

5958801