Can VoD streaming service co-exist with other services on a VM-based virtualized computing platform?

Abstract

Trend towards providing heterogeneous services concurrently by ISPs and low utilization of servers make it necessary to consolidate various services computing into a single platform. In such a shared environment, meeting application-level QoS goals and avoiding interaction among services become challenges as each application consumes different amount of resource and requires different QoS. Video-on-demand (VoD) has been identified as an important application among multimedia services. In this paper, we study a case of interaction among services concurrently running on a virtualized computing environment. The contributions of this paper are follows. 1) We design a novel capability service computing framework for service computing consolidation (CSCF) to study the interaction among concurrent services in a VM-Based Virtualized Computing Environment; 2) A dynamic and lazy memory flowing algorithm (DLMFaVM) among VMs is proposed to partially fulfill this computing model by resource flowing; 3) We also develop a virtualized computing platform to study the possibility of service computing consolidation; 4) We analyze the interaction among VoD service and other typical enterprise services in our capability service computing environment and draw a conclusion that the VoD streaming service co-existing with other services on a VM-based virtualized computing platform is a trend for ISPs. But it presents some challenges for the designers of service soft and the designers of service computing platform.