Comparative Study of Load Balancing Algorithms in Cloud Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing technology is changing the focus of IT world and it is becoming famous because of its great characteristics. Load balancing is one of the main challenges in cloud computing for distributing workloads across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources. Successful load balancing optimizes resource use, maximizes throughput, minimizes response time, and avoids overload. This paper presents the comparative study of load balancing algorithms based on the parameters: response time, data centre processing time and cost is reduced. The results discussed in this paper, based on existing round robin, throttled load balance and active monitoring load balancing algorithm.