A bee colony (beehive) based approach for data replication in cloud environments

Abstract

Cloud computing refers to applications and services which run on a distributed network, they also represent the ability of information technology as a service to network users. Data replication is an important way of managing mass data in a distributed manner; data replication is seen as one of the important issues in distributed systems which are usually undertaken for increasing the efficiency, availability, and security of information. Data replication’s core idea is developing methods for putting repetitions in different places, so that there are multiple iterations of the specific file in different sites. A key issue in data managing is the manner that system deals with duplicates. This included steps such as: which files are replicated, when is the data replication done and where in the system are they to be placed. In this study, the proposed method has been implemented using the MATLAB environment and the results have showed that the performing time of the proposed method is much lower as compared to previous methods and it had improved performance time compared to the previous methods.