Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for migrating one or more hardware devices (105) associated with a virtual machine (103) from a source machine (101) to a destination machine (111) by capturing, formatting, storing, and transferring hardware context information from the hardware device(s) at the source machine during the virtual machine migration process using a defined handshake protocol at each associated hardware driver (105) to capture the hardware context information from an associated hardware device (105) being migrated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for migrating one or more hardware devices (105) associated with a virtual machine (103) from a source machine (101) to a destination machine (111) by capturing, formatting, storing, and transferring hardware context information from the hardware device(s) at the source machine during the virtual machine migration process using a defined handshake protocol at each associated hardware driver (105) to capture the hardware context information from an associated hardware device (105) being migrated.

Abstract: A method of scheduling wireless communication for one or more data flows, wherein, for each data flow, there is: a corresponding queue to store data of that data flow; one or more quality-of-service parameters associated with that data flow; and a flow type associated with that data flow, there being a plurality of possible flow types; wherein the method comprises, during each time frame of a sequence of time frames, the steps of: maintaining, for each of the plurality of possible flow types, a queue list that identifies the queues corresponding to data flows of that flow type; and processing the queue lists in a predetermined order, in which processing a queue list comprises, for each queue identified in that queue list, attempting to schedule the communication of data stored on that queue during a current time frame in dependence upon the one or more quality-of-service parameters associated with the corresponding data flow and an amount of bandwidth available for the wireless communication during the curren

Abstract: A method of scheduling wireless communication for one or more data flows, wherein, for each data flow, there is: a corresponding queue to store data of that data flow; one or more quality-of-service parameters associated with that data flow; and a flow type associated with that data flow, there being a plurality of possible flow types; wherein the method comprises, during each time frame of a sequence of time frames, the steps of: maintaining, for each of the plurality of possible flow types, a queue list that identifies the queues corresponding to data flows of that flow type; and processing the queue lists in a predetermined order, in which processing a queue list comprises, for each queue identified in that queue list, attempting to schedule the communication of data stored on that queue during a current time frame in dependence upon the one or more quality-of-service parameters associated with the corresponding data flow and an amount of bandwidth available for the wireless communication during the curren