TY - GEN
T1 - Free network measurement for adaptive virtualized distributed computing
AU - Gupta, Ashish
AU - Zangrilli, Marcia
AU - Sundararaj, Ananth I.
AU - Huang, Anne I.
AU - Dinda, Peter A
AU - Lowekamp, Bruce B.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - An execution environment consisting of virtual machines (VMs) interconnected with a virtual overlay network can use the naturally occurring traffic of an existing, unmodified application running in the VMs to measure the underlying physical network. Based on these characterizations, and characterizations of the application's own communication topology, the execution environment can optimize the execution of the application using application-independent means such as VM migration and overlay topology changes. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of such free automatic network measurement by fusing the Wren passive monitoring and analysis system with Virtuoso's virtual networking system. We explain how Wren has been extended to support online analysis, and we explain how Virtuoso's adaptation algorithms have been enhanced to use Wren's physical network level information to choose VM-to-host mappings, overlay topology, and forwarding rules.
AB - An execution environment consisting of virtual machines (VMs) interconnected with a virtual overlay network can use the naturally occurring traffic of an existing, unmodified application running in the VMs to measure the underlying physical network. Based on these characterizations, and characterizations of the application's own communication topology, the execution environment can optimize the execution of the application using application-independent means such as VM migration and overlay topology changes. In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of such free automatic network measurement by fusing the Wren passive monitoring and analysis system with Virtuoso's virtual networking system. We explain how Wren has been extended to support online analysis, and we explain how Virtuoso's adaptation algorithms have been enhanced to use Wren's physical network level information to choose VM-to-host mappings, overlay topology, and forwarding rules.
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U2 - 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639382
DO - 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639382
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33847103630
SN - 1424400546
SN - 9781424400546
T3 - 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006
BT - 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006
Y2 - 25 April 2006 through 29 April 2006
ER -