Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing using Hybrid Algorithm

Abstract

With the rise of cloud computing, the high-energy consumption of data centers has become a serious concern. The cloud is an energy-intensive technology, with data centers housing hundreds of hosts. Energy usage is quite high 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result, there is a need to investigate various ways to minimize cloud energy consumption and to develop an algorithm to reduce cloud energy consumption. This work presents a hybrid method for energy efficiency in cloud computing that uses an artificial bee colony and a gravitational search algorithm. The proposed hybrid algorithm shows better energy efficiency compared to existing methodologies. Our proposed methodology consumes 15% lower energy than ABC algorithm and 27% lower than Gravitational search method in cloud computing. On other hand, number of active host and has been reduced w.r.t no. of Virtual Machine.