An Integrated Technique for Securing Large Virtual Machine Migration

Abstract

Maintaining data confidentiality and integrity during the large VM migration is quite challenging. Simultaneously, the use of complex encryption or steganography for managing them increases data and time overheads. These may cause data loss. The transportation of large VMs further consumes significant bandwidth and causes page faults. However, these issues aren't dealt with in modern literature, despite many research attempts. Moreover, unlawful intrusions and various transmission errors make these matters worse. Hence, this research work proposes an efficient technique that addresses such outstanding issues in a unified way. The suggested solution has a special data compression method that reduces big VM sizes to 53.9%, a new steganography method to enhance data confidentiality and integrity, and a smart split migration method to stop page faults as well as lower data loss to 0.0009%. The results further show that it cuts down on downtime by 10% more than the existing VM migration methods. The obtained results justify its efficiencies over other existing ones in distinct dimensions.