Multi-resource collaborative optimization for adaptive virtual machine placement

The unbalanced resource utilization of physical machines (PMs) in cloud data centers could cause resource wasting, workload imbalance and even negatively impact quality of service (QoS). To address this problem, this paper proposes a multi-resource collaborative optimization control (MCOC) mechanism for virtual machine (VM) migration. It uses Gaussian model to adaptively estimate the probability that the running PMs are in the multi-resource utilization balance status. Given the estimated probability of the multi-resource utilization balance state, we propose effective selection algorithms for live VM migration between the source hosts and destination hosts, including adaptive Gaussian model-based VMs placement (AGM-VMP) algorithm and VMs consolidation (AGM-VMC) method. Experimental results show that the AGM-VMC method can effectively achieve load balance and significantly improve resource utilization, reduce data center energy consumption while guaranteeing QoS.

A Virtual Machine Migration Strategy Based on the Relevance of Services against Side-Channel Attacks

With the rapid development of Internet of Things technology, a large amount of user information needs to be uploaded to the cloud server for computing and storage. Side-channel attacks steal the private information of other virtual machines by coresident virtual machines to bring huge security threats to edge computing. Virtual machine migration technology is currently the main way to defend against side-channel attacks. VM migration can effectively prevent attackers from realizing coresident virtual machines, thereby ensuring data security and privacy protection of edge computing based on the Internet of Things. This paper considers the relevance between application services and proposes a VM migration strategy based on service correlation. This strategy defines service relevance factors to quantify the degree of service relevance, build VM migration groups through service relevance factors, and effectively reduce communication overhead between servers during migration, design and implement the VM memory migration based on the post-copy method, effectively reduce the occurrence of page fault interruption, and improve the efficiency of VM migration.

Software-Defined Network Resource Optimization of the Data Center Based on P4 Programming Language

This paper makes use of the new architecture software-defined network (SDN) in the cloud data center based on P4 language to realize the flexible management and configuration of the network equipment to achieve (a) data center virtualization management and (b) data center resource optimization based on the P4 programming language. Furthermore, error tolerance of dynamic network optimization depends on the virtual machine (VM) online migration technology, and the load balancing mechanism has a very good flexibility. At the same time, the paper proposed a multipath VM migration strategy based on a quality of service (QoS) mechanism, which divides the VM migration resources into different QoS flows by network dynamic transmission and then selects valid forwarding for each flow path to migrate VMs. This ensures to improve the overall migration performance of VMs and ultimately the dynamic optimization of the network resources and their management. Our experimental evaluations show that the proposed model is approximately 13% and 17% better than the traditional state-of-the-art methods in terms of minimum migration time and the least downtime, respectively.