Load balancing cloud computing: State of art

Abstract

The rapid development of Internet has given birth to a new business model: Cloud Computing. This new paradigm has experienced a fantastic rise in recent years. Because of its infancy, it remains a model to be developed. In particular, it must offer the same features of services than traditional systems. The cloud computing is large distributed systems that employ distributed resources to deliver a service to end users by implementing several technologies. Hence providing acceptable response time for end users, presents a major challenge for cloud computing. All components must cooperate to meet this challenge, in particular through load balancing algorithms. This will enhance the availability and will gain the end user confidence. In this paper we try to give an overview of load balancing in the cloud computing by exposing the most important research challenges.