Load balancing in cloud computing using modified throttled algorithm

Abstract

Load balancing is one of the critical components for efficient operations in the cloud computing environment. In recent years many clients from all over the world are demanding the various services at rapid rate. Many algorithms have been designed to carry out the client's request towards the cloud nodes. Accordingly the cloud computing platform will dynamically configure its servers and these servers may be present physically or virtually in the computing environment. Hence, selecting the virtual machines or servers has to be scheduled properly by using an appropriate load balancing approach. In the present work, a local optimized load balancing approach is proposed for distributing of incoming jobs uniformly among the servers or virtual machines. Further, the performance is analyzed using CloudAnalyst simulator and compared with existing Round Robin and Throttled algorithms. Simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed algorithm has distributed the load uniformly among virtual machines. Copyright � 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.