Performance Analysis of Load Balancing Architectures in Cloud Computing

The Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging distributed system paradigm that offers a huge amount of IT resources as utility services at a reduced cost and flexible schemes. The key of such flexibility is an efficient load balancer that offers better management and utilization of virtualized underlyin...

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Published in2013 European Modelling Symposium pp. 520 - 524
Main Authors Al-Rayis, Ektemal, Kurdi, Heba
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2013
Subjects
Algorithm design and analysis
Cloud computing
component
Computer architecture
load balancing
Load management
Load modeling
Servers
simulation
Time factors
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DOI10.1109/EMS.2013.10

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Summary:The Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging distributed system paradigm that offers a huge amount of IT resources as utility services at a reduced cost and flexible schemes. The key of such flexibility is an efficient load balancer that offers better management and utilization of virtualized underlying cloud infrastructures. However, most of the existing load balancers in cloud computing are based on either centralized or fully distributed architectures while the idea of harnessing multiple load balancers in a hierarchical structure to improve the sever load and job response time is still under studied. Therefore, this paper, aims at bridging this gap by providing a comparative study between the three load balancing architectures in cloud computing: centralized, decentralized and hierarchical load balancers. The experimental results suggest that the hierarchical architecture for load balancers best suits the public cloud environment and call for further research to test whether these results can be generalized for other types of clouds.
DOI:10.1109/EMS.2013.10