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Stateful VM Migration Among Heterogeneous WebAssembly Runtimes for Efficient Edge-cloud Collaborations

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Daigo Fujii,

Katsuya Matsubara,

Yuki NakataAuthors Info & Claims

EdgeSys '24: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking

Pages 19 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/3642968.3654816

Published: 22 April 2024 Publication History

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WebAssembly (Wasm) has been attracting attention as a common platform for edge computing thanks to its architecture neutrality, sandboxing for security, and lightweight characteristics that fit the requirements for distributed and cooperated processing with heterogeneous compute nodes, which consist of edge devices and clouds. Virtual machine (VM) migration technology enables seamless and flexible workload offloading on edge-cloud collaboration, but unfortunately, VM migration among different Wasm runtimes is complicated since the Wasm standardization does not specify the implementation design of internal runtime very well. Nevertheless, many implementations of Wasm runtime already exist, and each has different characteristics. We therefore aim to implement a stateful VM migration among most of the major Wasm runtimes. In this work, we prototyped a VM migration mechanism between WasmEdge and WAMR to investigate the technical challenges and determine the feasibility of implementing the runtime-neutral VM migration. Our experimental results on heterogenous VM migration demonstrate the value of coexisting multiple runtimes well-suited for each edge and cloud and seamlessly offloading the workloads among them.

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Nakata YMatsubara K(2024)Poster: Feasibility of Runtime-Neutral Wasm Instrumentation for Edge-Cloud Workload Handover2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)10.1109/SEC62691.2024.00068(528-530)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SEC62691.2024.00068
Kaur HGargrish S(2024)DRAP-CPU: a novel vm migration approach through a dynamic prioritized resource allocation strategyMicrosystem Technologies10.1007/s00542-024-05725-9Online publication date: 24-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-024-05725-9

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Stateful VM Migration Among Heterogeneous WebAssembly Runtimes for Efficient Edge-cloud Collaborations
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Distributed computing methodologies
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Software infrastructure
    2. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Cloud computing
      2. Embedded software

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EdgeSys '24: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking

April 2024

67 pages

ISBN:9798400705397

DOI:10.1145/3642968

General Chairs:
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Atakan Aral,
Volker Hilt

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Nakata YMatsubara K(2024)Poster: Feasibility of Runtime-Neutral Wasm Instrumentation for Edge-Cloud Workload Handover2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)10.1109/SEC62691.2024.00068(528-530)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/SEC62691.2024.00068
Kaur HGargrish S(2024)DRAP-CPU: a novel vm migration approach through a dynamic prioritized resource allocation strategyMicrosystem Technologies10.1007/s00542-024-05725-9Online publication date: 24-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-024-05725-9

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