A PMIPv6 approach to maintain network connectivity during VM live migration over the internet

Author

Kassahun, Solomon ; Demessie, Atinkut ; Ilie, Dragos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comm. Syst., Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Karlskrona, Sweden

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

69

Abstract

We present a live migration solution based on Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), a light-weight mobility protocol standardized by IETF. PMIPv6 handles node mobility without requiring any support from the moving nodes. In addition, PMIPv6 works with IPv4, IPv6 and dual-stack nodes. Our results from a real testbed show that network connectivity is successfully maintained with little signaling overhead and with short virtual machine (VM) downtime. As far as we know, this is the first time PMIPv6 is used to enable live migration beyond the scope of a LAN.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; local area networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; signalling protocols; virtual machines; IETF standard; IPv4; Internet; LAN; PMIPv6 approach; VM live migration; dual-stack node; lightweight mobility protocol; proxy mobile IPv6; signaling overhead; virtual machine; Conferences; Delays; Linux; Local area networks; Routing; Servers; Wide area networks; Protocols; computer network management; mobile nodes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Luxembourg

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CloudNet.2014.6968970

Filename

6968970