Open AccessSpeeding Up VM Image Distribution for Cloud Data Centers
Author(s) -
Choonhwa Lee,
Hyungseock Lee,
Eunsam Kim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2016.04002
Subject(s) - cloud computing , computer science , image (mathematics) , data center , computer graphics (images) , operating system , computer vision
An efficient scheme of virtual machine image dissemination, which takes up a major portion of VM provisioning time, is key to ensuring that the service can be provisioned and delivered to clients in a timely manner. This paper presents a novel peer-to-peer protocol to efficiently distribute virtual machine images in a cloud data center. The primary idea of our proposal is to expedite the peer-to-peer content delivery by taking advantage of a high level of similarity that oftentimes exists among different VM images. The efficacy of our protocol is validated through an evaluation that demonstrates substantial performance gains over existing approaches