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Code Migration

Russell T. Potee, III


Overview

 Why Code Migration?


 Code Migration Models
 Migration and Handling Resources
 Heterogeneous Systems
 Migration Security
Why Code Migration?

 Process Migration - definition


 Transfer an entire running process from one machine
to another
 Load distribution
 Measured by CPU queue length or utilization
 Good for computational systems
 Reduce Network Bandwidth
 Migrate part of client application to server
 Migrate part of client application to database server to
perform many database operations
 Send only result across network
Why Code Migration?

 Reduce Network Bandwidth


 Migrate part of server application to client
 Migrate part of database server to client to process forms on
client side
 Reduces database operations over the network
 XSS - Javascript
 Parallelism
 Mobile Agent
 Dynamic Configuration of Distributed Systems
 Download and Initialize Code
Code Migration Models

 Code Migration Framework


 Code Segment
 Set of instructions being executed
 Resource Segment
 References to external resources
 Files, printers, devices, et cetera
 Execution Segment
 Process state
 Private data
 Stack
 Instruction pointer
Code Migration Models

 Weak Mobility
 Transfer code segment and initialized data
 Portable code
 Predefined starting positions
 Java Applets
 Strong Mobility
 Transfer includes execution segment
 Process can be stopped, moved to another machine,
and resumed
Code Migration Models

 Sender-initiated
 Code transfer is initiated by machine currently
executing the code
 Example
 Uploading programs to a computational server
 Receiver-initiated
 Transfer is initiated by machine that will execute code
 Example
 Java applets
Handling Resources

 Process-to-resource binding
 Binding by identifier (strong)
 Process refers to resources by their identifiers
 Example
 URL
 Binding by value (weaker)
 Process refers to another resource with the same value
 Binding by type (weakest)
 Process refers to local devices
Handling Resources

 Resource-to-machine binding
 Unattached resources
 Can be moved easily
 Data Files
 Fastened resources
 Can be moved at high cost
 Database
 Fixed resources
 Cannot be moved
 Local devices
Heterogeneous Systems

 Heterogeneous systems are platforms with


different operating systems and/or different
machine architectures
 Problems with heterogeneous systems is similar to
those of portability
 Solutions
 Highly portable languages
 Scripting languages, interpreted languages (Java)
 Migrating computing environments
 Migrating virtual machines
Migration Security

 Protecting mobile agents


 need to protect sensitive data
 Three mechanisms for securing mobile agents
 Read-only state
 Data items are signed by agent's owner
 Append-only state
 Data can only be appended to logs
 Selective reading
 Each data entry can only be updated by selected servers
Migration Security

 Protecting hosts against malicious mobile code


 Sandbox
 Monitor specific instructions, registers, memory regions
 Easier to do with interpreted languages
 Java sandbox
 Playground
 Separate machines exist to execute mobile code
 Code-signing
 Stack introspection
 Name space management
Sources

 Tanenbaum, A., Van Steen, M.: Distributed


Systems: Principles and Paradigms, Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
 Fuggetta, A., Picco, G.P., and Vigna, G:
“Understanding Code Mobility.” IEEE Trans.
Soft. Eng., May 1998.
 Milojicic, D., Douglis, F., Paindeveine, Y.,
Wheeler, R., Zhou, S.: “Process Migration.” ACM
Computing Surv., Sept 2000.
Sources

 Clark, C., Fraser K., Hand, S., Hansen, J.G., Jul,


E., Limpoch, C., Pratt, I., Warfield, A.: “Live
Migration of Virtual Machines.” Proc. Second
Symp. Network Systems and Design Impl.,
(Boston, MA). Berkley, CA: USENIX, 2005.

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