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Container memory live migration is an iterative process of memory pages transmission, which is challenging in Wide Area Network (WAN) because the migration often takes too long to finish or even fails due to limited bandwidth. To facilitate container memory live migration in WAN, a key point is to reduce the size of data transmission. In light of this, we leverage popularity values to express the refresh frequency of container memory pages, and propose a new container memory live migration method based on dirty page popularity perception. Our method calculates memory dirty page popularity values and uses these values to perform adaptive memory transmission during migration. We illustrate the proposed method with a detailed discussion on the key algorithm and data structure, and we also implement a prototype system for evaluation. Experimental results reveal that our method improves the container memory live migration efficiency by reducing the total transmitted data with a negligible performance overhead.
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Shang, Y., Lv, D., Liu, J., Dong, H., Ren, T. (2021). Container Memory Live Migration in Wide Area Network. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12608. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74717-6_8
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