Virtualised e-Learning with real-time guarantees on the IRMOS platform

Author

Cucinotta, T. ; Checconi, F. ; Kousiouris, G. ; Kyriazis, D. ; Varvarigou, T. ; Mazzetti, A. ; Zlatev, Z. ; Papay, J. ; Boniface, M. ; Berger, S. ; Lamp, D. ; Voith, T. ; Stein, M.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper we focus on how Quality of Service guarantees are provided to virtualised applications in the Cloud Computing infrastructure that is being developed in the context of the IRMOS European Project. Provisioning of proper timeliness guarantees to distributed real-time applications involves the careful use of real-time scheduling mechanisms at the virtual-machine hypervisor level, of QoS-aware networking protocols and of proper design methodologies and tools for stochastic modelling of the application. The paper focuses on how we applied these techniques to a case-study involving a real e-Learning mobile content delivery application that has been integrated into the IRMOS platform and its achieved performance.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer aided instruction; mobile computing; protocols; quality of service; stochastic processes; virtual machines; IRMOS European project; QoS-aware networking protocol; cloud computing; mobile content delivery application; quality of service; real-time guarantee; real-time scheduling; stochastic modelling; virtual-machine hypervisor level; virtualised e-learning; Artificial neural networks; Electronic learning; Mathematical model; Quality of service; Real time systems; Servers; Time factors; Real-time scheduling; e-Learning; stochastic modelling; virtualised infrastructures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOCA.2010.5707166

Filename

5707166