Author : Abhijit Aditya, Uddalak Chatterjee and Snehasis Gupta

Cloud computing is distributed technologies to satisfy a variety of applications and user needs. There are various technical challenges that needs to be addressed like Virtual machine migration, server consolidation, fault tolerance, high availability and scalability but central issue is the load balancing. Proper load balancing aids in implementing fail-over, enabling scalability, over-provisioning, minimizing resource consumption and avoiding bottlenecks etc. Various parameters are also identified, and these are used to compare the existing techniques. We present the performance analysis of various load balancing algorithms based on different parameters, considering two load balancing approaches static and dynamic. The analysis indicates that static and dynamic both types of algorithm have some advantages as well as disadvantages. The main purpose is analyze different algorithms based on time factor.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Load Balancing, Virtualization, static load balancing, dynamic load balancing

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.3 (June-2015)