A self-organized load balancing mechanism for cloud computing

摘要

The growth in computer and networking technologies over the past decades established cloud computingrnas a new paradigm in information technology. The cloud computing promises to deliver cost-effective servicesrnby running workloads in a large scale data center consisting of thousands of virtualized servers. Thernmain challenge with a cloud platform is its unpredictable performance. A possible solution to this challengerncould be load balancing mechanism that aims to distribute the workload across the servers of the datarncenter effectively. In this paper, we present a distributed and scalable load balancing mechanism for cloudrncomputing using game theory. The mechanism is self-organized and depends only on the local informationrnfor the load balancing.We proved that our mechanism converges and its inefficiency is bounded. Simulationrnresults show that the generated placement of workload on servers provides an efficient, scalable, and reliablernload balancing scheme for the cloud data center.