Task Migration in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Heterogeneous Process Migration is a technique whereby an active process is moved from one machine to another of possibly different architecture. This necessitates the capture of the process's current state of execution and recovering it on the destination machine in a manner understandable to it. My work mainly focuses on capture and recovery of the internal state of process, comprising of the execution and data state – activation history, and static and heap data. The two major issues involved here are- the mechanism of process state capture and recovery and the initiation of the capture mechanism.