Quantitative Analysis of Static Load Balancing Algorithms in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging internet-based technology emphasizing commercial computing. Cloud is a platform providing dynamic pool of resources and virtualization. It is based on pay-as-u-go model. The reliability of clouds depends on the way it handle loads, to overcome such problems clouds must be featured with the load balancing mechanism. Load balancing is required as we do not want one centralized server's performance to be degraded. Load balancing is categorized to be either static or dynamic. The main purpose of this paper is to implement and compare the round robin, randomized, central manager and threshold static load balancing algorithms through the simulation environment provided by the cloud analyst simulator.
Keywords: Cloud Computing, load balancing, virtual machine (VM), data center
Cite this Article: Katoch Swati, Thakur Jawahar. Quantitative analysis of static load balancing algorithms in cloud computing environment. Current Trends in Information Technology. 2015; 5(1): 6-13p.