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Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part III pp 75–85Cite as

Swarm of Mobile Virtualization Containers

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A decentralized algorithm for controlling the distribution of tasks between nodes of a simple computational cloud is presented. Each task is running inside a virtualization container and thus can be easily migrated to other hosts. An additional relatively unintelligent mobile agent process is placed inside each container to control this migration process. These mobile virtualization containers use only local interactions and no communication to give the desired global behavior of the cloud providing dynamic load balancing between the servers. The resulting swarm-like group behavior is robust to node failures and to changes in number of tasks running in a cloud.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 166, 02–787, Warsaw, Poland

    Marian Rusek, Grzegorz Dwornicki & Arkadiusz Orłowski

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    Jerzy Świątek

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wroclaw, Poland

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Rusek, M., Dwornicki, G., Orłowski, A. (2016). Swarm of Mobile Virtualization Containers. In: Świątek, J., Borzemski, L., Grzech, A., Wilimowska, Z. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part III. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 431. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28564-1_7

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