A novel bio-inspired load balancing of virtualmachines in cloud environment

Abstract

Load Balancing plays an important role in managing the software and the hardware components of cloud. In this present scenario the load balancing algorithm should be efficient in allocating the requested resource and also in the usage of the resources so that the over/underutilization of the resources will not occur in the cloud environment. In the present work, the allocation of all the available Virtual Machines is done in an efficient manner by Particle Swarm Optimization load balancing algorithm. Further, we have used cloudsim simulator to compare and analyze the performance of our algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm distributes the load on all the available virtual machines uniformly i.e, without any under/over utilization and also the average response time is better compared to all existing scheduling algorithms. � 2014 IEEE.