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On Demand Clock Synchronization for Live VM Migration in Distributed Cloud Data Centers
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Yashwant Singh Patel
  • Aditi Page
  • Manvi Nagdev
  • Anurag Choubey
  • Rajiv Misra
  • Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Live migration of virtual machines (VMs) has become an extremely powerful tool for cloud data center management and provides significant benefits of seamless VM mobility among physical hosts within a data center or across multiple data centers without interrupting the running service. However, with all the enhanced techniques that ensure a smooth and flexible migration, the down-time of any VM during a live migration could still be in a range of few milliseconds to seconds. But many time-sensitive applications and services cannot afford this extended down-time, and their clocks must be perfectly synchronized to ensure no loss of events or information. In such a virtualized environment, clock synchronization with minute precision and error boundedness are one of the most complex and tedious tasks for system performance. In this paper, we propose enhanced DTP and wireless PTP based clock synchronization algorithms to achieve high precision at intra and inter-cloud data center networks. We thoroughly analyze the performance of the proposed algorithms using different clock measurements. Through simulation and real-time experiments, we also show the effect of various performance parameters on the data center networking architectures.

Department(s)
Computer Science
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for Research in Energy and Environment (CREE)
Second Research Center/Lab
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Third Research Center/Lab
Intelligent Systems Center
Comments

The work of S. K. Das is partially supported by NSF grants CNS-1818942 , CCF-1725755 , and CBET-1609642.

Keywords and Phrases
  • Cloud data centers,
  • Data center networks,
  • Data center Time Protocol (DTP),
  • Live VM migration,
  • Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2020 Academic Press Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-1-2020
Publication Date
01 Apr 2020
Disciplines
Citation Information
Yashwant Singh Patel, Aditi Page, Manvi Nagdev, Anurag Choubey, et al.. "On Demand Clock Synchronization for Live VM Migration in Distributed Cloud Data Centers" Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Vol. 138 (2020) p. 15 - 31 ISSN: 0743-7315
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sajal-das/162/