Mobile service micro-containers for cloud environments

Aya Omezzine (1) , Sami Yangui (2, 3, 4) , Narjes Bellamine (1) , Samir Tata (2, 3, 4)

1 ENSI - École Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique [Manouba]
2 TSP - INF - Département Informatique
3 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Study of mobility on Cloud infrastructures and platforms shows that they present limitation related to deployment and running of service-based applications that are built from heterogeneous services (heterogeneous programming languages, communication protocols and/or hosting frameworks). In this paper, we present mobile service-containers that are able to host services on the Cloud and migrate from one virtual machine to another independently of the programming languages and/or bindings of the deployed services. Mobile micro-containers are extensions from our already developed micro-containers for hosting service-based applications on the Cloud. Several approaches were considered and discussed to provide mobility for service micro-containers. Experiments are conducted to compare these approaches but also to determine the overhead of the added mobility.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Aya Omezzine, Sami Yangui, Narjes Bellamine, Samir Tata. Mobile service micro-containers for cloud environments. WETICE ' 12 : IEEE 21st International Workshop on Enabling Technologies : Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, Jun 2012, Toulouse, France. pp.154-160, ⟨10.1109/WETICE.2012.78⟩. ⟨hal-00748791⟩