Brokering and Load-Balancing Mechanism in the Cloud – Revisited
Ranesh Kumar Naha, Mohamed Farouk Sayed Othman · IETE Technical Review · 2014
The demand for cloud computing has greatly increased in the past few years due to the offering of computing as a service form. The vendor-dependent implementation of cloud service providers, cloud interoperability, is an immense concern for cloud users as well as service providers. Another issue is the difficulty of selecting an appropriate provider considering the specific user requirements and a diverse vendor centric approach. Besides the standardization process, one of the most significant current discussions in cloud computing is the cloud-brokering service. Cloud brokering is having a positive impact in choosing an appropriate provider along with the capability to handle cloud-to-cloud communication. From the recent proposals, we re-evaluate the brokering and load-balancing algorithms with a generated workload. This study produced results that corroborate the findings of a great deal of the previous work in this field. The current findings of recent works add to a growing body of literature on cloud-brokering and load-balancing algorithms. In this paper, we revisited existing cloud-brokering algorithms in order to propose a new cloud-brokering architecture with the enhancement of brokering algorithms to improve brokering performance. Another contribution is to identify the best combination of all the proposed algorithms based on the processing time and response time.