A hybrid ABC-SA based optimized scheduling and resource allocation for cloud environment

Abstract

Cloud computing is one of the rapidly growing environment in recent days where it interconnects the entire world in human’s day to day life activities. Resource allocation, scheduling and load balancing are the three important things which improve the quality of service in cloud computing. To do this and choose an optimum resource, optimum schedule and through this balancing the load can be obtained using ABC-SA method. The main contribution of this paper is to implement a hybrid optimization algorithm by integrating the functionality of simulated annealing (SA) into artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm to do the efficient scheduling according to the task size, priority of the request and closest distance between client nodes to a server in the cloud environment. This ABC-SA based optimized scheduling approach has the capability of improving the efficiency in terms of searching optimum resource time where the dynamic and random searching behavior is obtained from SA. ABC-SA is implemented and experimented in the CloudSim tool and the results are verified. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated by comparing the results with the existing system results.