Load balancing in cloud computing: Challenges & issues

Abstract

Cloud computing is latest emerging technology for large scale distributed computing and parallel computing. Cloud computing gives large pool of shared resources, software packages, information, storage and many different applications as per user demands at any instance of time. Cloud computing is emerging quickly; a large number of users are attracted towards cloud services for more satisfaction. Balancing the load has become more interesting research area in this field. Better load balancing algorithm in cloud system increases the performance and resources utilization by dynamically distributing work load among various nodes in the system. This paper presents cloud computing, cloud computing architecture, virtualization, load balancing, challenges and various currently available load balancing algorithms.