A bargaining game based energy-aware load balancing in cloud data centers

Abstract

This paper addresses the energy-aware load balancing problem in the cloud computing environment. The problem considers two performance criteria- response time and energy. First, it is modeled as a cooperative game, and then an efficient algorithm is proposed to compute the Nash bargaining solution (NBS). The proposed algorithm is compared with an existing approach called NCG. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides less response time while consuming less energy.