A nature-inspired approach for load balancing of tasks in cloud computing using equal time allocation

Abstract

Cloud computing is treated as one of the efficient paradigm for distributed computing. Due to the vast development in the internet world, scheduling of resources on cloud computing makes the issues. Load balancing over a virtual machines place a major role in efficient scheduling. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for load balancing among virtual machines by using a nature inspired approach called as honey bee foraging (LB-HBF). The task and virtual machine allocation mechanism which is used inside this LB-HBF is equal time allocation policy. This policy works efficiently for allocating the tasks to the virtual machines and reducing the task migrations over virtual machines. The experimental results showed the effectiveness of LB-HBF.