Load balancing techniques in cloud platform: A systematic study

Ranjit Rajak; Anjali Choudhary; Mohammad Sajid

doi:10.52756/ijerr.2023.v30.002

Ranjit Rajak Department of Computer Science and Applications, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-3278
Anjali Choudhary Department of Computer Science and Applications, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0273-4836
Mohammad Sajid Department of Computer Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8822-5332

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2023.v30.002

Keywords: Cloud computing, load balancing, makespan, response time, virtual machine

Abstract

In the current scenario, researchers have made a new invention and added to the computing paradigm every next second. Cloud computing is one of the most demanding, practical, accessible and extended technologies based on ‘pay as per use model’ and works on virtualisation via internet. Data sharing and accessing have become easy by properly organising various resources, such as storage, servers, development tools, software, etc, in cloud. Handling these resources has faced many challenges, such as cost management, system performance, migration, load imbalance, reliability and privacy etc. Load imbalance is one of the most important factors which are solved by load balancing techniques. This paper introduced the detailed classification of load balancing methods and techniques that are taken as a solution to overcome such problems and also helps future researchers. Also given is a proposed model for load balancing and some comparative studies of the heuristics methods based on platforms and simulator tools.

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