A Comparative Study on Load Balancing Algorithms in Cloud Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging computational model for delivering services over the internet to clients at any time and any location on a pay-per-use basis. Load balancing is a set of techniques used to improve resource utilization and affect the overall performance of the cloud computing platform. In this paper, comparative study is performed for existing Round Robin algorithm, throttled algorithm and Equally Spread Current Execution Load algorithm on the basis of following metrics: overall response time, data center processing time, data center request servicing times and the overall processing cost.