Title :
A Mechanism Based on Netfilter for Live TCP Migration in Cluster
Author :
Huan, Wang ; Li, Tian ; MingFa, Zhu ; Limin, Xiao ; Li, Ruan
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Software Dev. Environ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
TCP migration is an important and complex aspect of process migration, which is the foundation of dynamic load balancing. Single IP Address cluster offers a transparent view of a cluster of machines as if they were a single computer on the network. In such an environment, TCP migration can play a significant role for providing services seamlessly. In this paper, we propose a live migration mechanism using Net filter framework in which no modification to Linux kernel is required. The proposed plug-in module approach has the following advantages: flexibility-TCP migration functions may be loaded and unloaded dynamically, without node function interruption, TCP connections are kept alive while migration is taking place.
Keywords :
transport protocols; workstation clusters; IP address cluster; Netfilter; TCP connections; dynamic load balancing; flexibility-TCP migration functions; live migration mechanism; process migration; Netfilter; TCP migration; cluster; load balancing; process migration;
Conference_Titel :
Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), 2010 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9334-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4313-0
DOI :
10.1109/GCC.2010.52