A load balancing strategy for Cloud Computing environment

Abstract

Information and communication technology has been growing rapidly for the last few decades. In today's age of information and globalization massive computing power is desired to generate business insights and competitive advantage [1]. Cloud Computing is an emerging technology and has attracted a lot of attention in both commercial and academic spheres. It is growing very fast and provides an alternative to conventional computing. There are cloud service providers who provide services in a flexible manner. The main goal of cloud service provider is to establish an efficient load balancing algorithm which ensures a fair distribution of loads among virtual machines and better resource utilization. In this paper we present a heuristic based load balanced scheduling model for efficient execution of tasks. The proposed model balances the loads coming from several users among datacenters and hence it offers better resource utilization and high availability in the form of improved response time and turnaround time. The proposed algorithm is implemented using CloudSim simulator and the result shows that the proposed algorithm outperforms to existing algorithms on similar objectives.