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| Florin Sultan, Aniruddha Bohra, Liviu Iftode, "Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions," Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE Symposium on, pp. 177, 22nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'03), 2003. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/RELDIS.2003.1238067, author = {Florin Sultan and Aniruddha Bohra and Liviu Iftode}, title = {Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions}, journal ={Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE Symposium on}, volume = {0}, year = {2003}, issn = {1060-9857}, pages = {177}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/RELDIS.2003.1238067}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE Symposium on TI - Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions SN - 1060-9857 SP EP A1 - Florin Sultan, A1 - Aniruddha Bohra, A1 - Liviu Iftode, PY - 2003 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Reliable Distributed Systems, IEEE Symposium on ER - | |||
We propose service continuations (SC), an operating system mechanism that supports seamless dynamic migration of Internet service sessions between cooperating multiprocess servers. Service continuations provide a server application with a simple and easy to use abstraction, and a means to migrate the service state along with the serviced connection. SC supports transparent resumption of service to the client at another server, and guarantees integrity and consistency of communication channels used by server processes. SC is a generic, application independent-mechanism that can be used to provide service continuity and availability for today?s complex Internet services.
We have implemented SC in FreeBSD and used them successfully in three real servers: the Apache web server, the PostgreSQL transactional database server, and the Ice-cast streaming server. We present results of an experimental evaluation showing that using SC adds negligible run-time overhead to existing servers and that SC enables efficient dynamic migration of client sessions.