Virtual Machine Security Problems and Countermeasures for Improving Quality of Service in Cloud Computing

Author(s):  
S Mahipal ◽  
V. Ceronmani Sharmila
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1457-1462

Cloud computing technology has gained the attention of researchers in recent years. Almost every application is using cloud computing in one way or another. Virtualization allows running many virtual machines on a single physical computer by sharing its resources. Users can store their data on datacenter and run their applications from anywhere using the internet and pay as per service level agreement documents accordingly. It leads to an increase in demand for cloud services and may decrease the quality of service. This paper presents a priority-based selection of virtual machines by cloud service provider. The virtual machines in the cloud datacenter are configured as Amazon EC2 and algorithm is simulated in cloud-sim simulator. The results justify that proposed priority-based virtual machine algorithm shortens the makespan, by 11.43 % and 5.81 %, average waiting time by 28.80 % and 24.50%, and cost of using the virtual machine by 21.24% and 11.54% as compared to FCFS and ACO respectively, hence improving quality of service.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson Akintoye ◽  
Antoine Bagula

Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate methods for allocating cloud-user applications to virtual resources, and virtual resources to the physical resources. The effective allocation of resources in cloud data centers is also one of the vital optimization problems in cloud computing, particularly when the cloud service infrastructures are built by lightweight computing devices. In this paper, we formulate and present the task allocation and virtual machine placement problems in a single cloud/fog computing environment, and propose a task allocation algorithmic solution and a Genetic Algorithm Based Virtual Machine Placement as solutions for the task allocation and virtual machine placement problem models. Finally, the experiments are carried out and the results show that the proposed solutions improve Quality-of-Service in the cloud/fog computing environment in terms of the allocation cost.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.16) ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Aula Abdel Latief Dewan ◽  
Rabah Abood Ahmed

In the Cloud Computing, the live migration of a virtual machine or VM from one physical machine to another is a vital process applied on the service provider side. Live migration helps administrators manage data centers resources optimally. Due to the intensive daily use, it is necessary to improve the performance of VM migration-this is reflected in improving the quality of service provided to the customer while minimizing the costs incurred. Pre-copy is an important method of live migration that has been adopted in many cloud computing platforms. One main drawback of this method is the degradation of its performance when the migrating VM runs one or more of the processes that write on the memory pages faster than the speed of transferring those pages. This makes migration time-consuming. In this paper, we propose an approach to address this issue by reducing the generation rate of the modified pages while maintaining the service provided to the customer. This approach was applied to the real Xen platform and the results showed an improvement in the time of live migration of the virtual machine that runs an intensive write process up to 40% compared to the migration time of the original Xen platform.  


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1400
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adnan ◽  
Jawaid Iqbal ◽  
Abdul Waheed ◽  
Noor Ul Amin ◽  
Mahdi Zareei ◽  
...  

Modern vehicles are equipped with various sensors, onboard units, and devices such as Application Unit (AU) that support routing and communication. In VANETs, traffic management and Quality of Service (QoS) are the main research dimensions to be considered while designing VANETs architectures. To cope with the issues of QoS faced by the VANETs, we design an efficient SDN-based architecture where we focus on the QoS of VANETs. In this paper, QoS is achieved by a priority-based scheduling algorithm in which we prioritize traffic flow messages in the safety queue and non-safety queue. In the safety queue, the messages are prioritized based on deadline and size using the New Deadline and Size of data method (NDS) with constrained location and deadline. In contrast, the non-safety queue is prioritized based on First Come First Serve (FCFS) method. For the simulation of our proposed scheduling algorithm, we use a well-known cloud computing framework CloudSim toolkit. The simulation results of safety messages show better performance than non-safety messages in terms of execution time.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Usman Ashraf ◽  
◽  
Sabah Arif ◽  
Abdul Basit ◽  
Malik Sheraaz Khan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1964 (4) ◽  
pp. 042086
Author(s):  
K Radhika ◽  
Y Murali Mohan Babu ◽  
J K Periasamy ◽  
T R Saravanan

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