Autonomous Agent Based Load Balancing Algorithm in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing revolves around internet based acquisition and release of resources from a data center. Being internet based dynamic computing; cloud computing also may suffer from overloading of requests. Load balancing is an important aspect which concerns with distribution of resources in such a manner that no overloading occurs at any machine and resources are optimally utilized. However this aspect of cloud computing has not been paid much attention yet. Although load balancing is being considered as an important aspect for other allied internet based computing environments such as distributed computing, parallel computing etc. Many algorithms had been proposed for finding the solution of load balancing problem in these fields. But very few algorithms are proposed for cloud computing environment. Since cloud computing is significantly different from these other types of environments, separate load balancing algorithm need to be proposed to cater its requirements. This work proposes an Autonomous Agent Based Load Balancing Algorithm (A2LB) which provides dynamic load balancing for cloud environment. The proposed mechanism has been implemented and found to provide satisfactory results.