Scalable service containers

Sami Yangui (1, 2, 3, 4) , Mohamed Mohamed (1, 2, 3, 4) , Samir Tata (1, 2, 4) , Samir Moalla (3)

1 TSP - INF - Département Informatique
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 FST - Département d'informatique
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Cloud Computing is a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on Internet protocols. It typically involves provisioning of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources. In this environment, there are several issues related to the inadequacies of hosting platforms and mechanisms to ensure the smooth running of service-based applications (communication protocols, ESB, Service containers, etc.). In particular, architectures and implementations of service containers are not adapted to Cloud environments. In this paper, we present a new service container dedicated to one deployed service that avoids the processing limits of classical services containers. Our approach addresses scalability by reducing memory consumption and response time. The proposed service container is evaluated in several situations against well known services containers within a real Cloud Computing network.

Mots clés: Cloud computing; Scalability; Service container

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Sami Yangui, Mohamed Mohamed, Samir Tata, Samir Moalla. Scalable service containers. CloudCom '11 : 3rd IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Nov 2011, Athens, Greece. pp.348-356, ⟨10.1109/CloudCom.2011.54⟩. ⟨hal-00748798⟩