Title
Inferring Network Topologies in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud
Abstract
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds are gaining increasing popularity as a platform for distributed computations. The virtualization layers of those clouds offer new possibilities for rapid resource provisioning, but also hide aspects of the underlying IT infrastructure which have often been exploited in classic cluster environments. One of those hidden aspects is the network topology, i.e. the way the rented virtual machines are physically interconnected inside the cloud. We propose an approach to infer the network topology connecting a set of virtual machines in IaaS clouds and exploit it for data-intensive distributed applications. Our inference approach relies on delay-based end-to-end measurements and can be combined with traditional IP-level topology information, if available. We evaluate the inference accuracy using the popular hyper visors KVM as well as XEN and highlight possible performance gains for distributed applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CCGrid.2011.79
CCGrid
Keywords
Field
DocType
classic cluster environment,hidden aspect,iaas cloud,virtual machine,network topology,underlying it infrastructure,inference approach,service cloud,inference accuracy,traditional ip-level topology information,delay-based end-to-end measurement,inferring network topologies,infrastructure as a service,topology,cloud computing,accuracy,virtualization,clustering algorithms,servers,virtual machines
Virtualization,Logical topology,Virtual machine,Computer science,Inference,Computer network,Network topology,Exploit,Provisioning,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.42
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominic Battré125720.40
Natalia Frejnik260.91
Siddhant Goel360.91
Odej Kao4106696.19
Daniel Warneke560127.20