Priority Based Mechanism for Resource Sharing in Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing technologies are getting matured day by day. Revolutions in underlying software, virtualization and hardware technologies related to storage, processing and computing technologies has helped cloud computing service providers to win trust of concerned stake holders. However, the exponentially increasing demand of cloud based resources has made task of resource management and utilization more and more challenging. A novel load balancing technique in cloud computing environment is presented in this paper. The virtual machines are implemented on an open source cloud computing platform on open source operating system. A virtual machines’ priorities based load balancing approach presented here indicates improvement in overall waiting time for load balancing. The mechanism prioritizes load balancing on same priority level virtual machines or lower priority level virtual machines.