Live Migration of Virtual Machine and Container Based Mobile Core Network Components: A Comprehensive Study
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| Title: | Live Migration of Virtual Machine and Container Based Mobile Core Network Components: A Comprehensive Study |
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| Authors: | Shunmugapriya Ramanathan, Koteswararao Kondepu, Miguel Razo, Marco Tacca, Luca Valcarenghi, Andrea Fumagalli |
| Contributors: | European Commission |
| Source: | e-Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) instname IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 105082-105100 (2021) IEEE Access |
| Publisher Information: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Subject Terms: | Telecomunicaciones, Docker, live migration, 9. Industry and infrastructure, VM, 0211 other engineering and technologies, OAI, 02 engineering and technology, C-RAN, CloudLab, container, CRIU, virtual EPC, TK1-9971, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering |
| Description: | With the increasing demand for openness, flexibility, and monetization, the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) of mobile network functions has become the embracing factor for most mobile network operators. Early reported field deployments of virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC) - the core network (CN) component of 4G LTE and 5G non-standalone mobile networks - reflect this growing trend. To best meet the requirements of power management, load balancing, and fault tolerance in the cloud environment, the need for live migration of these virtualized components cannot be shunned. Virtualization platforms of interest include both Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers, with the latter option offering more lightweight characteristics. This paper's first contribution is the proposal of a framework that enables migration of containerised virtual EPC components using an open-source migration solution which does not fully support the mobile network protocol stack yet. The second contribution is an experimental-based comprehensive analysis of live migration in two virtualization technologies - VM and Container - with the additional scrutinization on the container migration approach. The presented experimental comparison accounts for several system parameters and configurations: flavor (image) size, network characteristics, processor hardware architecture model, and the CPU load of the backhaul network components. The comparison reveals that the live migration completion time and also the end-user service interruption time of the virtualized EPC components is reduced approximately by 70% in the container platform when using the proposed framework. |
| Document Type: | Article Other ORP type |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/access.2021.3099370 |
| Access URL: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/6287639/6514899/09493213.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34089 http://hdl.handle.net/10016/34089 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3099370 https://doaj.org/article/a4de690a4c7a4d2a876796a50d22bde9 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.12509 http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210812509R/abstract https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/access/access9.html#RamanathanKRTVF21 http://export.arxiv.org/pdf/2108.12509 https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12509 http://hdl.handle.net/https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34089 |
| Rights: | CC BY CC BY NC ND |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....352fef7558cd6e7dadc788ea34be91cc |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | With the increasing demand for openness, flexibility, and monetization, the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) of mobile network functions has become the embracing factor for most mobile network operators. Early reported field deployments of virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC) - the core network (CN) component of 4G LTE and 5G non-standalone mobile networks - reflect this growing trend. To best meet the requirements of power management, load balancing, and fault tolerance in the cloud environment, the need for live migration of these virtualized components cannot be shunned. Virtualization platforms of interest include both Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers, with the latter option offering more lightweight characteristics. This paper's first contribution is the proposal of a framework that enables migration of containerised virtual EPC components using an open-source migration solution which does not fully support the mobile network protocol stack yet. The second contribution is an experimental-based comprehensive analysis of live migration in two virtualization technologies - VM and Container - with the additional scrutinization on the container migration approach. The presented experimental comparison accounts for several system parameters and configurations: flavor (image) size, network characteristics, processor hardware architecture model, and the CPU load of the backhaul network components. The comparison reveals that the live migration completion time and also the end-user service interruption time of the virtualized EPC components is reduced approximately by 70% in the container platform when using the proposed framework. |
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| ISSN: | 21693536 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/access.2021.3099370 |