@inproceedings{Torr2101:Benchmarking,

title = {Benchmarking Live Migration Performance under Stressed Conditions},

author = {Roberto Torre and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Florian Kemser and Hani Salah and Ievgenii A. Tsokalo and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-09},

booktitle = {2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 

(CCNC) (CCNC 2021)},

address = {Las Vegas, USA},

abstract = {Live migration is a technology that seamlessly relocates a virtualized service between physical hosts, which allows services to rapidly adapt to environmental changes. Despite the large amount of research, mainly aiming at minimizing the downtime, there is still a lack of understanding of its performance using the most common off-the-shelf virtualization technologies, namely docker containers and KVM. Understanding the barriers of live migration will give companies the knowledge on whether the migration is possible or not, when the migration needs to be triggered, how many resources the migration will use, and under which conditions the migration will be successful. Moreover, it helps to detect bottlenecks, and also to identify which parts of the migration need to be improved. Towards a better understanding of live migration, we build a testbed and use it to migrate a computation-intensive application with docker and KVM. We evaluate the service downtime, migration time, and network usage under different conditions. The results show that KVM outperforms docker in most of the scenarios, with some critical exceptions where only docker manages to perform migration.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Kropp2021,

title = {Reliable Control for Robotics - Hardware Resilience Powered by Software},

author = {Alexander Kropp and Mario Schwalbe and Ievgenii A. Tsokalo and Martin Süßkraut and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-09},

booktitle = {2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 

(CCNC) (CCNC 2021)},

address = {Las Vegas, USA},

abstract = {Industry 4.0 is now much more than just a buzzword. However, with the advancement of automation through digitization and softwarization of dedicated hardware, applications are also becoming more susceptible to random hardware errors in the calculation. This cyber-physical demonstrator uses a robotic application to show the effects that even single bit flips can have in the real world due to hardware errors. Using the graphical user interface including the human machine interface, the audience can generate hardware errors in the form of bit flips and see their effects live on the robot. In this paper we will be showing a new technology, the SIListra Safety Transformer (SST), that makes it possible to detect those kind of random hardware errors, which can subsequently make safety-critical applications more reliable.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Torre20Benchmarking,

title = {Benchmarking Live Migration Performance of Two Trendy Virtualization Technologies},

author = {Roberto Torre and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Florian Kemser and Hani Salah and Ievgenii A. Tsokalo and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-07-06},

booktitle = {2020 IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: CNERT 2020: Computer and Networking Experimental 

Research using Testbeds (INFOCOM 2020 WKSHPS CNERT 2020)},

address = {Toronto, Canada},

abstract = {Live migration is a technology that seamlessly relocates a virtualized 

service between physical hosts, which allows services to rapidly adapt to 

environmental changes. Despite the large amount of research, mainly aiming 

at minimizing the downtime, there is still a lack of understanding of its 

performance using the most common off-the-shelf virtualization 

technologies, namely docker containers and KVM. Understanding the barriers 

of live migration will give companies the knowledge on whether the 

migration is possible or not, when the migration needs to be triggered, how 

many resources the migration will use, and under which conditions the 

migration will be successful. Moreover, it helps to detect bottlenecks, and 

also to identify which parts of the migration need to be improved. Towards 

a better understanding of live migration, we build a testbed and use it to 

migrate a computation-intensive application with docker and KVM. We 

evaluate the service downtime, migration time, and network usage under 

different conditions. The results show that KVM outperforms docker in most 

of the scenarios, with some critical exceptions where only docker manages 

to perform migration.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Schmoll2019,

title = {Comparing and Evaluating Application-specific Boot Times of Virtualized Instances},

author = {Robert-Steve Schmoll and Tobias Fischer and Hani Salah and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-10-01},

booktitle = {IEEE 5G World Forum},

address = {Dresden, Germany},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Kropp2019,

title = {Demonstration of a 5G Multi-access Edge Cloud Enabled Smart Sorting Machine for Industry 4.0},

author = {Alexander Kropp and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Giang T. Nguyen and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 

(CCNC) (CCNC 2019)},

address = {Las Vegas, USA},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Gabriel-2017,

title = {Practical deployment of network coding for real-time applications in 5G networks},

author = {Frank Gabriel and Giang T. Nguyen and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Juan A. Cabrera and Maciej Mühleisen and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-12},

urldate = {2018-01-12},

booktitle = {CCNC},

address = {Las Vegas},

abstract = {The 5G communication system will provide flexible and programmable networks by leveraging softwarization technologies such as NFV and SDN. That advanced feature of 5G networks will be demonstrated in the context of real-time video surveillance for public safety. Specifically, we demonstrate for the first time a practical deployment of Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) with NFV and SDN technologies to improve video quality against packet loss due to congestion at the core network and signal impairment of lossy channels at network edges. The demonstration implements NFV and SDN applications on COTS devices to prove its flexibility and portability.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Pand1801:Demonstration,

title = {Demonstration of VR / AR offloading to Mobile Edge Cloud for low latency 5G gaming application},

author = {Robert-Steve Schmoll and Sreekrishna Pandi and Patrik J. Braun and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 

(CCNC) (CCNC 2018)},

address = {Las Vegas, USA},

abstract = {Future 5G mobile communication networks aim to provide many more use cases 

not only for people but also for connecting machines. Some of these 

applications, like VR/AR and automation, call for low latencies, which 

cannot be achieved by aggregated data centres. Also, for VR/AR, offloading 

of computation will be a key element to bring new experiences to mobile 

devices. In order to fulfil low latency, outsourcing of computation and 

mobility, the Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) will play a key role in 5G 

networking. This demo shows an implementation of a VR game in an MEC with 

the capability to move game servers across the world without service 

interruption},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nguyen-2017,

title = {Theory that Matters! Problem-based learning towards 5G Communication System and Standards},

author = {Giang T. Nguyen and Juan A. Cabrera and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Sreekrishna Pandi and Rico Radeke and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10900/78148},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-12},

urldate = {2017-10-12},

booktitle = {KuVS Fachgespräch "Network Softwarization" – From Research to Application},

pages = {2},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{braun2017study,

title = {On the study and deployment of mobile edge cloud for tactile Internet using a 5G gaming application},

author = {Patrik J. Braun and Sreekrishna Pandi and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7983098/},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2017 14th IEEE Annual},

pages = {154-159},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{pandi2017demonstration,

title = {Demonstration of mobile edge cloud for tactile Internet using a 5G gaming application},

author = {Sreekrishna Pandi and Robert-Steve Schmoll and Patrik J. Braun and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7983188/},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2017 14th IEEE Annual},

pages = {607-608},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}