Improving Quality of Service and Reducing Power Consumption with WAN accelerator in Cloud Computing Environments

The widespread use of cloud computing services is expected to deteriorate a Quality of Service andtoincrease the power consumption of ICT devices, since the distance to a server becomes longer thanbefore. Migration of virtual machines over a wide area can solve many problems such as load balancingand power saving in cloud computing environments.This paper proposes to dynamically apply WAN accelerator within the network when a virtual machine ismoved to a distant center, in order to prevent the degradation in performance after live migration ofvirtual machines over a wide area. mSCTP-based data transfer using different TCP connections beforeand after migration is proposed in order to use a currently available WAN accelerator. This paper doesnot consider the performance degradation of live migration itself. Then, this paper proposes to reduce thepower consumption of ICT devices, which consists of installing WAN accelerators as part of cloudresources actively and increasing the packet transfer rate of communication link temporarily. It isdemonstrated that the power consumption with WAN accelerator could be reduced to one-tenth of thatwithout WAN accelerator.