STOIC: Streaming Operating Systems In The Cloud
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2017
Published In
2017 IEEE International Conference On Communications (ICC)
Abstract
As cloud computing continues to increase in performance, while simultaneously decreasing in cost, it comes as no surprise that traditional computing tasks are frequently being offloaded to cloud services. This paper presents STOIC, a service model for booting and streaming an operating system from public cloud infrastructure. Having booted with STOIC, users can perform regular activities with few noticeable differences between STOIC and more traditional methods of booting an OS. STOIC makes minimal assumptions about the hardware and software capabilities of the booting client and is compatible with many popular cloud storage providers. We show that STOIC's file streaming is responsive and demonstrate several use cases in which streaming an OS is beneficial when compared to alternative file distribution methods.
Published By
IEEE
Conference
2017 IEEE International Conference On Communications (ICC)
Conference Dates
May 21-25, 2017
Conference Location
Paris, France
Recommended Citation
Riley B. Collins , '16; Teo Gelles , '16; Benjamin H. Marks , '16; Alexander M. Simms , '16; and Kevin Webb.
(2017).
"STOIC: Streaming Operating Systems In The Cloud".
2017 IEEE International Conference On Communications (ICC).
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996824
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-comp-sci/58