Techniques of load balancing in cloud computing: A survey
Divya Rastogi, Farhat Ullah Khan · 2014
Cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm of large scale distributed computing. It is a framework for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources. Load balancing is one of the main challenges in cloud computing which is required to distribute the dynamic local workload evenly across all the nodes. It helps to achieve a high user satisfaction and resource utilization ratio by ensuring an efficient and fair allocation of every computing resource. Proper load balancing aids in minimizing resource consumption, implementing fail-over, enabling scalability, avoiding bottlenecks and over- provisioning etc. This study concludes that all the existing techniques mainly focus on reducing associated overhead, service response time and improving performance etc. Various parameters are also identified, and these are used to compare the existing techniques.