Enhanced Bee Colony Approach for reducing the energy consumption during VM migration in cloud computing environment

Abstract

To achieve virtualization in a cloud environment, resource utilization and energy need to be handled carefully. For this one should have to manage the workload, by distributing the load equally among the node. So that, the resources should be distributed equally among the cloud user and access data anytime from anywhere with minimum energy. In this paper, an enhanced Artificial Bee Colony (E-ABC) approach is presented to minimize overall energy consumption with minimum number of migrations. E-ABC approach migrates the VM from the overloaded host to underloaded hosts and hence save energy. The enhancement of the proposed work is exhibited by showing comparison with the Enhanced Cuckoo Search (E-CS) approach and Ant Colony Optimization technique using MATLAB simulator. Enhancement in the reduction of energy consumption of about 15.45 %, and 17.03 % is observed against E-CS, and existing work.