Virtualization at the network edge: A technology perspective




Kakakhel Syed, Mukkala Lauri, Westerlund Tomi, Plosila Juha

IEEE

International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing

PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

2018

2018 Third International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC)

2018 3rd International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, FMEC 2018

87

92

978-1-5386-5897-0

978-1-5386-5896-3

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/FMEC.2018.8364049(external)



Container-based virtualization offers a very feasible alternative to heavyweights like KVM or XEN. Containers are lightweight and offer near-native performance. They are also easy to deploy because of continuous integration/development tools and environments. This paper offers a brief introduction to containers, defines its properties and provides use-cases in the context of those properties. Secondly, we look at the live migration of stateful applications via containers. Live migration is a promising technique at the network edge to unload computing to other nodes to expand the use of fog computing / mobile-edge computing. Our experiment shows that live migration of stateful applications can result in three different types of errors, namely, resend, reprocessed and wrong-order errors.



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