Open AccessZIVM: A Zero-Copy Inter-VM Communication Mechanism for Cloud Computing
Author(s) -
Hamid Reza Mohebbi,
Omid Kashefi,
Mohsen Sharifi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
computer and information science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1913-8997
pISSN - 1913-8989
DOI - 10.5539/cis.v4n6p18
Subject(s) - computer science , cloud computing , virtual machine , hypervisor , virtualization , operating system , latency (audio) , distributed computing , computer network , telecommunications
With the advent of virtualization technology and its propagation to the infrastructure of Cloud distributed systems, there is an emergent request for more effective means of communication between virtual machines (VMs) lying on distributed memory than traditional message based communication means. This paper presents a distributed virtual shared memory mechanism called ZIVM (Zero-copy Inter-VM) to ease the programming of inter-VM communications in a transparent way and at the same time to achieve comparable and bearable execution performance. ZIVM has been implemented as a virtual cluster on a hosted virtual machine using the KVM hypervisor. Experimental results have shown near native performance in terms of latency and bandwidth. 2026. All Rights Reserved.