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Towards Peer-to-Peer Virtualized Service Hosting, Discovery and Delivery

Authors:
David Bailey
Kevin Vella

Keywords: Virtualization, distributed systems, peer-to-peer computing, service-oriented computing

Abstract:
This paper introduces a peer-to-peer framework for providing, locating and consuming distributed services that are encapsulated within virtual machines. We believe that the decentralized nature of peer-to-peer networks acting in tandem with techniques such as live virtual machine migration and replication facilitate scalable and on-demand provision of services. Furthermore, the use of virtual machines eases the deployment of a wide range of legacy systems that may subsequently be exposed through the framework. To illustrate the feasibility of running distributed services within virtual machines, several Hadoop benchmarks are executed on a compute cluster running our framework, and their performance characteristics are evaluated. While I/O-intensive benchmarks suffer a penalty due to virtualization-related limitations in the prevailing I/O architecture, the performance of processor-bound benchmarks is virtually unaffected. Thus, the combination of peer-to-peer technology and virtualization merits serious consideration as a scalable and ubiquitous basis for distributed services.

Pages: 44 to 49

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-102-1

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010