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Stream Control Transmission Protocol
, 2007
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This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC 2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as ‘‘work in progress.’’ The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
Optimizing the migration of virtual computers
- In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
, 2002
"... Abstract This paper shows how to quickly move the state of a running computer across a network, including the state in its disks, memory, CPU registers, and I/O devices. We call this state a capsule. Capsule state is hardware state, so it includes the entire operating system as well as applications ..."
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Abstract This paper shows how to quickly move the state of a running computer across a network, including the state in its disks, memory, CPU registers, and I/O devices. We call this state a capsule. Capsule state is hardware state, so it includes the entire operating system as well as applications and running processes. We have chosen to move x86 computer states because x86 computers are common, cheap, run the software we use, and have tools for migration. Unfortunately, x86 capsules can be large, containing hundreds of megabytes of memory and gigabytes of disk data. We have developed techniques to reduce the amount of data sent over the network: copy-on-write disks track just the updates to capsule disks, "ballooning" zeros unused memory, demand paging fetches only needed blocks, and hashing avoids sending blocks that already exist at the remote end. We demonstrate these optimizations in a prototype system that uses VMware GSX Server virtual machine monitor to create and run x86 capsules. The system targets networks as slow as 384 kbps. Our experimental results suggest that efficient capsule migration can improve user mobility and system management. Software updates or installations on a set of machines can be accomplished simply by distributing a capsule with the new changes. Assuming the presence of a prior capsule, the amount of traffic incurred is commensurate with the size of the update or installation package itself. Capsule migration makes it possible for machines to start running an application within 20 minutes on a 384 kbps link, without having to first install the application or even the underlying operating system. Furthermore, users' capsules can be migrated during a commute between home and work in even less time.
Mobile Computing with the Rover Toolkit”,
- IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special issue on Mobile Computing,
, 1997
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SAP: Session announcement protocol
, 1996
"... This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserv ..."
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This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. This document describes version 2 of the multicast session directory announcement protocol, Session Announcement Protocol (SAP), and the related issues affecting security and scalability that should be taken into account by implementors. 1
Millau: An Encoding Format for Efficient Representation and Exchange of XML Documents over the WWW
- In Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks
, 2000
"... XML is poised to take the World Wide Web to the next level of innovation. XML data, large or small, with or without associated schema, will be exchanged between increasing number of applications running on diverse devices. Efficient storage and transportation of such data is an important issue. We h ..."
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XML is poised to take the World Wide Web to the next level of innovation. XML data, large or small, with or without associated schema, will be exchanged between increasing number of applications running on diverse devices. Efficient storage and transportation of such data is an important issue. We have designed a system called Millau for efficient encoding and streaming of XML structures. In this paper we describe the Millau algorithms for compression of XML structures and data. Millau compression algorithms, in addition to separating structure and text for compression, take advantage of the associated schema (if available) in compressing the structure. Millau also defines a programming model corresponding to XML DOM and SAX for XML APIs for Millau streams of XML documents. Our experiments have shown significant performance gains of our algorithms and APIs. We describe some of these results in this paper. We also describe some applications of XML-based remote procedure calls and client-server applications based on Millau that take advantage of the compression and streaming technology defined by the system.
FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport
, 2004
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The Effectiveness of Deduplication on Virtual Machine Disk Images
"... Virtualization is becoming widely deployed in servers to efficiently provide many logically separate execution environments while reducing the need for physical servers. While this approach saves physical CPU resources, it still consumes large amounts of storage because each virtual machine (VM) ins ..."
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Virtualization is becoming widely deployed in servers to efficiently provide many logically separate execution environments while reducing the need for physical servers. While this approach saves physical CPU resources, it still consumes large amounts of storage because each virtual machine (VM) instance requires its own multi-gigabyte disk image. Moreover, existing systems do not support ad hoc block sharing between disk images, instead relying on techniques such as overlays to build multiple VMs from a single “base ” image. Instead, we propose the use of deduplication to both reduce the total storage required for VM disk images and increase the ability of VMs to share disk blocks. To test the effectiveness of deduplication, we conducted extensive evaluations on different sets of virtual machine disk images with different chunking strategies. Our experiments found that the amount of stored data grows very slowly after the first few virtual disk images if only the locale or software configuration is changed, with the rate of compression suffering when different versions of an operating system or different operating systems are included. We also show that fixedlength chunks work well, achieving nearly the same compression rate as variable-length chunks. Finally, we show that simply identifying zero-filled blocks, even in ready-touse virtual machine disk images available online, can provide significant savings in storage.
TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection
"... Fuzz testing has proven successful in finding security vulnerabilities in large programs. However, traditional fuzz testing tools have a well-known common drawback: they are ineffective if most generated malformed inputs are rejected in the early stage of program running, especially when target pro ..."
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Fuzz testing has proven successful in finding security vulnerabilities in large programs. However, traditional fuzz testing tools have a well-known common drawback: they are ineffective if most generated malformed inputs are rejected in the early stage of program running, especially when target programs employ checksum mechanisms to verify the integrity of inputs. In this paper, we present TaintScope, an automatic fuzzing system using dynamic taint analysis and symbolic execution techniques, to tackle the above problem. TaintScope has several novel contributions: 1) TaintScope is the first checksum-aware fuzzing tool to the best of our knowledge. It can identify checksum fields in input instances, accurately locate checksum-based integrity checks by using branch profiling techniques, and bypass such checks via control flow alteration. 2) TaintScope is a directed fuzzing tool working at X86 binary
Adaptive Online Data Compression
- In IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC’11
, 2002
"... Quickly transmitting large datasets in the context of distributed computing on wide area networks can be achieved by compressing data before transmission. However, such an approach is not efficient when dealing with higher speed networks. Indeed, the time to compress a large file and to send it is g ..."
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Quickly transmitting large datasets in the context of distributed computing on wide area networks can be achieved by compressing data before transmission. However, such an approach is not efficient when dealing with higher speed networks. Indeed, the time to compress a large file and to send it is greater than the time to send the uncompressed file. In this paper, we explore and enhance an algorithm that allows us to overlap communications with compression and to automatically adapt the compression effort to currently available network and processor resources. 1
