Load balancing techniques in cloud platform: A systematic study

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.