Title
Evaluating industrial applicability of virtualization on a distributed multicore platform
Abstract
Adoption of virtualization technology has been limited in industrial automation due to unavailability of mature solutions, and strict timing requirements of control systems. However, current advancement in Virtual Monitoring Machine, multicore technology, virtualization extension and network virtualization has led to increased interest of virtualization in industrial automation. So far, many related research are focused on maximizing CPU and I/O utilization, and optimization applicable to soft realtime systems (i.e., outside industrial automation domain), e.g., multimedia applications. In this research, we make use of QoS for CPU, memory and network bandwidth in pursuit of high speed and predictability on a distributed multicore platform which is constructed entirely from open source products. We evaluate the platform for latency and jitter, network throughput and CPU computation load. Finally, we analyze the result for applicability in industrial control domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ETFA.2014.7005062
Emerging Technology and Factory Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed processing,industrial control,jitter,quality of service,real-time systems,virtualisation,CPU computation load,I/O utilization,QoS,control systems,distributed multicore platform,industrial applicability,industrial automation,industrial control domain,jitter,latency,memory,multicore technology,network bandwidth,network throughput,network virtualization,open source products,soft realtime systems,virtual monitoring machine,virtualization extension,virtualization technology
Storage virtualization,Virtualization,Virtual machine,Computer science,Quality of service,Automation,Real-time computing,Full virtualization,Network virtualization,Multi-core processor,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.63
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nesredin Mahmud170.63
Kristian Sandström216815.83
Aneta Vulgarakis370.63