Server Load Balancing Research Articles

Analysis of vehicle-to-grid economy based on sustainable development grounded in game theory

In a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) peaking system based on coordination games, ultimate goal realized a positive total net return in V2G operations, while ensuring that the interests of all stakeholders reached a balanced equilibrium. This study examined the cost and benefit dynamics of BYD (Build Your Dreams) electric vehicles, encompassing electric vehicle users, power grid companies, and power plants, before and after participating in V2G peak load balancing services. Pre-game analysis revealed that power plants led in terms of revenue, significantly surpassing electric vehicle users, whereas grid companies incurred negative net income. An increase in peak load exacerbated the power company’s net loss, posing a significant challenge to V2G’s sustainable development. However, post-game, a cooperative alliance between the power grid company and car users was forged through financial means, with the power grid company and power plants offering invaluable data support through collaborative efforts. The disparity between optimized peak and base load generation costs narrowed to 79% of pre-optimization levels, with a 3.14% reduction in carbon emissions. Furthermore, the implementation of this collaboration strategy can result in a maximum reduction of 9% in the power grid company’s losses and an enhancement of 6.7% in the net revenue of the entire V2G peak-shaving system. Consequently, this strategy significantly promotes the development of V2G operations.

Efficient slicing scheme and cache optimization strategy for structured dependent tasks in intelligent transportation scenarios

The challenges posed by structured large-scale tasks to resource-sensitive intelligent transportation systems have been acknowledged, particularly regarding the need to reduce delay and energy consumption during the caching and offloading processes. To address these challenges and improve the quality of service for vehicular users, a cloud–edge-end collaboration caching strategy (CACCSC) based on structured task content awareness was proposed in this paper. The dependencies among task fragments were modeled through fuzzy judgment criteria. In addition, a system delay model, an energy consumption model, and an edge server load balancing model were developed, along with a multi-objective optimization model that integrates system delay, energy consumption, and edge server load balancing variance. To solve this multi-objective optimization problem, an adaptive multi-objective optimization algorithm (MDE-NSGA-III) was developed, which combines an enhanced version of the Differential Evolution algorithm with improvements to the NSGA-III algorithm. Finally, it has been demonstrated through simulation experiments that when the number of users in the system reaches 35, the system delay, energy consumption, and load balancing variance of the MDE-NSGA-III optimization scheme proposed in this paper are 6.1%, 6.6%, and 25% lower than those of the NSGA-III scheme, 15.8%, 10%, and 41.7% lower than those of the NSGA-II scheme, and 62.7%, 20.7%, and 8.3% lower than those of the PeEA scheme.

Deep reinforcement learning-based resource scheduling for energy optimization and load balancing in SDN-driven edge computing

Traditional techniques for edge computing resource scheduling may result in large amounts of wasted server resources and energy consumption; thus, exploring new approaches to achieve higher resource and energy efficiency is a new challenge. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) offers a promising solution by balancing resource utilization, latency, and energy optimization. However, current methods often focus solely on energy optimization for offloading and computing tasks, neglecting the impact of server numbers and resource operation status on energy efficiency and load balancing. On the other hand, prioritizing latency optimization may result in resource imbalance and increased energy waste. To address these challenges, we propose a novel energy optimization method coupled with a load balancing strategy. Our approach aims to minimize overall energy consumption and achieve server load balancing under latency constraints. This is achieved by controlling the number of active servers and individual server load states through a two stage DRL-based energy and resource optimization algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that our scheme can save an average of 19.84% energy compared to mainstream reinforcement learning methods and 49.60% and 45.33% compared to Round Robin (RR) and random scheduling, respectively. Additionally, our method is optimized for reward value, load balancing, runtime, and anti-interference capability.

Social Media and Cloud Computing Impact on Human Resource Management in Multinational Enterprises

To address the issues of high storage costs for human resource data, resource management of human resource systems, and employee social interaction in human resource management, this study proposes an adaptive intelligent HR data placement strategy based on genetic algorithms. Additionally, a fitness model and an employee social interaction model are presented. The fitness model utilizes genetic algorithms to optimize data storage strategy and server load balancing, resulting in reduced overall costs and efficient resource utilization. This is achieved by comprehensively considering data transmission latency and storage costs. The employee social interaction model analyzes social media blog post topics and employee ranks, and employs a co-training method to predict employee interactions. The experimental results indicated that the placement strategy can improve the HR data transfer by nearly 50% and effectively reduce the standard deviation of server load by about 10-15%. The accuracy, recall, F1 value, and precision of the employee social interaction model were 77.89%, 63.97%, 70.32%, and 71.78%, respectively. The proposed strategy and model demonstrated higher accuracy and robustness in predicting and analyzing employee social interactions, thus providing more reliable decision support for human resource management.

Performance Comparison of Zevenet Multi Service Load Balancing with Least Connection and Round Robin Algorithm

Amikom Purwokerto University concentrates on Technology and Digital Business. This requires technology to be utilized optimally. The use of technology, especially internships, will make various jobs easier. KRS online is taking lecture schedules online via the AMIKOM Purwokerto Student website. There are several problems with the web server that arise due to the increasing need for information access, which causes the data traffic load to increase. Increased data traffic causes workload overload, resulting in server downtime. Experimental methods were used in this research to look for the causes of the web server's downtime. Then, implement the technology. The purpose is to evaluate the Zevenet load balancer performances by comparing the round-robin and least-connection algorithms. The decision is which algorithm will be used best to implement the Zevenet Load balancer to achieve a more efficient backend server traffic cluster distribution. The TIPHON standard Quality of Service parameters used in Zevenet Load Balancer performance testing are throughput, delay, jitter, packet loss, and CPU usage. The quality-of-service parameter test results show that the Zevenet Load Balancer with the round-robin algorithm has superior performance and shows less CPU usage. It is concluded that using the round-robin algorithm in implementing the Zevenet load balancer to overcome the problem of data traffic load sharing and minimize server downtime on the Student Amikom Purwokerto web server is more appropriate and more effective.

A Blockchain-Based Real-Time Power Balancing Service for Trustless Renewable Energy Grids

We face a decentralized renewable energy production scenario, where a large number of small energy producers, i.e., prosumers, contribute to a common distributor entity, who resells energy directly to end-users. A major challenge for the distributor is to ensure power stability, constantly balancing produced vs consumed energy flows. In this context, being able to provide quick restore actions in response to unpredictable unbalancing events is a must, as fluctuations are the norm for renewable energy sources. To this aim, the high scalability and diversity of sources are crucial requirements for the said balancing to be actually manageable. In this study, we explored the challenges and benefits of adopting a blockchain-based software architecture as a scalable, trustless interaction platform between prosumers’ smart energy meters and the distributor. Our developed prototype accomplishes the energy load balancing service via smart contracts deployed in a real blockchain network with an increasing number of simulated prosumers. We show that the blockchain-based application managed to react in a timely manner to energy unbalances for up to a few hundred prosumers.

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Task Offloading and Load Balancing for Vehicular Edge Computing

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) effectively reduces the computational burden on vehicles by offloading tasks from resource-constrained vehicles to edge nodes. However, non-uniformly distributed vehicles offloading a large number of tasks cause load imbalance problems among edge nodes, resulting in performance degradation. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning-based decision scheme for task offloading and load balancing with the optimization objective of minimizing the system cost considering the split offloading of tasks and the load dynamics of edge nodes. First, we model the mutual interaction between mobile vehicles and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers using a Markov decision process. Second, the optimal task-offloading and resource allocation decision is obtained by utilizing the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm (TD3), and server load balancing is achieved through edge collaboration using a server selection algorithm based on the technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS). Finally, we have conducted extensive simulation experiments and compared the results with several other baseline schemes. The proposed scheme can more effectively reduce the system cost and increase the system resource utilization.

Optimizing Cloud Service Load Balancing Through Heat Conduction Equation Applications

Optimizing Cloud Service Load Balancing Through Heat Conduction Equation Applications

Dynamic service function chains placement based on parallelized requests in edge computing environment

AbstractThe advent of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology brings flexible traffic engineering to edge computing environments. Online services in NFV are chained as Service Function Chains (SFCs), which consist of ordered sequences of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). The SFC Placement (SFCP) problem is solved under Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and limited resource availability by directing traffic to the required VNFs. However, SFC assembly leads to high latency and network congestion by increasing the count of VNFs, which parallelized SFC can overcome this problem. With parallelizing an SFC request, independent VNFs are activated simultaneously and computational acceleration is realized by reducing the SFC length. Any pair of VNFs that do not conflict with traffic can be activated simultaneously. Most VNFs are deployed on distributed servers for load balancing, which makes SFC parallelization challenging. Meanwhile, the cost of merging/duplicating packets for parallelized SFCs between different servers is not negligible. Hence, in this article, Distributed Parallel Chaining (DPC) is proposed which is an algorithm based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approaches. The DPC algorithm solves the SFCP problem to maximize the Long‐Term Expected Cumulative Reward (LTECR). DPC incorporates an Asynchronous Advantage Actor‐Critic (A3C) algorithm as a new approach based on DRL to increase the admission ability of future SFC requests by maximizing LTECR. The evaluation results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm from different aspects. Specifically, compared to the best existing approaches, DPC can reduce SFC latency by 8.7%.

Virtualized intelligent genetic load balancer for federated hybrid cloud environment using deep belief network classifier

Load balancing is major issue in federated cloud environment. Various services can be offered by different cloud service providers. As per current working environment cloud computing is used in major applications such as education, online shopping, multimedia services, etc. Dynamic load balancing is required to handle the resources. Federated cloud has various services offering system with computing resources, resource pooling, internet access services and storage. Intelligent Genetic algorithm is proposed to provide efficient load balancing service in hybrid cloud environment. Virtualized Intelligent Genetic Load Balancer algorithm consists of load balancer and resource provisioning system to allocate the resources. Enhanced Load Balancer is used to preserve the load and minimize the span time based on resource provisioning method. In this work we analyse automated virtual machine services by using runtime resource provision. Here we use enhanced load balancer to measure the performance using virtual machine placements, resource utilization and automated quality requirements. We design a deep belief network based on requirements and measure the accuracy using TensorFlow. The simulation results test the accuracy and compare the results. Virtualized Intelligent Genetic Load Balancer system is achieving the accuracy of 95% based on overall capacity requirements. We compare Virtualized Intelligent Genetic Load Balancer system performance with existing simulations results and compared the results.

Intelligent Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in IIoT With End-Edge-Cloud Computing Using NSGA-III

The Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), which consists of massive IoT devices and wireless access points in industrial infrastructures to acquire intelligent services, has been considered as a vital physical information platform for implementing Industry 4.0. Further, mobile edge computing (MEC) has brought an opportunity to accelerate the development of IIoT. However, the existing MEC methods may not be directly used for IIoT scenarios due to the large size of IIoT devices and the characteristics of the applications, as well as the limited and heterogeneous resources of edge servers. In view of this, the computation offloading and resource allocation are formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem, and an end-edge-cloud collaborative intelligent optimization method is devised in this paper. Comprehensive experiments and evaluations are carried out to prove the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method with regard to the energy consumption and time consumption of IIoT devices, as well as resource utilization and load balancing of edge servers.

Deep reinforcement learning-based edge computing offloading algorithm for software-defined IoT

Edge computing offloading can effectively solve the problem of insufficient computing resources for terminal devices and improve the performance and efficiency of the system. When network states and tasks change rapidly, data-driven intelligent algorithms have difficulty obtaining comprehensive statistics for accurate prediction, resulting in degraded performance of computational offloading and difficulty in adaptive adjustment. It is a current challenge to improve the environment-aware, intelligent optimization so that the computational offloading algorithm can adapt to the dynamic changes in network state and task demands, thus achieving global multi-objective optimization. This paper presents optimized edge computing offloading algorithm for software-defined IoT. First, to provide global state for making decisions, a software defined edge computing (SDEC) architecture is proposed. The edge layer is integrated into the control layer of software-defined IoT, and multiple controllers share the global network state information via east–west message exchange. Moreover, an edge computing offloading algorithm in software-defined IoT (ECO-SDIoT) based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed. It enables the controllers to offload the computing task to the most appropriate edge server according to the global states, task requirements, and reward. Finally, the performance metrics for edge computing offloading were evaluated in terms of unit task processing latency, load balancing of edge servers, task processing energy consumption, and task completion rate, respectively. Simulation results show that ECO-SDIoT can effectively reduce task completion time and energy consumption compared with other strategies.

Web Server Load Balance Design In Internet Network Using Nth Method

This study aims to build a load balance web server using the NTH load balance method, apply a balanced distribution of connection paths to the two web servers, and reduce the traffic load on the connection path and also the web server. This study uses the action research method, which uses this method to describe, interpret and explain a condition at the same time as carrying out interventions aimed at improvement or participation. The results of this study indicate that web server load balance can be carried out using the NTH method which is applied to proxy routers. The application of the NTH method can divide the connection path between the two servers in a balanced manner and can reduce the traffic load on each predetermined connection path. In addition to applying load balance, data replication in the database can also be done as well as synchronizing files in the web application directory..

Replicating File Segments between Multi-Cloud Nodes in a Smart City: A Machine Learning Approach

The design and management of smart cities and the IoT is a multidimensional problem. One of those dimensions is cloud and edge computing management. Due to the complexity of the problem, resource sharing is one of the vital and major components that when enhanced, the performance of the whole system is enhanced. Research in data access and storage in multi-clouds and edge servers can broadly be classified to data centers and computational centers. The main aim of data centers is to provide services for accessing, sharing and modifying large databases. On the other hand, the aim of computational centers is to provide services for sharing resources. Present and future distributed applications need to deal with very large multi-petabyte datasets and increasing numbers of associated users and resources. The emergence of IoT-based, multi-cloud systems as a potential solution for large computational and data management problems has initiated significant research activity in the area. Due to the considerable increase in data production and data sharing within scientific communities, the need for improvements in data access and data availability cannot be overlooked. It can be argued that the current approaches of large dataset management do not solve all problems associated with big data and large datasets. The heterogeneity and veracity of big data require careful management. One of the issues for managing big data in a multi-cloud system is the scalability and expendability of the system under consideration. Data replication ensures server load balancing, data availability and improved data access time. The proposed model minimises the cost of data services through minimising a cost function that takes storage cost, host access cost and communication cost into consideration. The relative weights between different components is learned through history and it is different from a cloud to another. The model ensures that data are replicated in a way that increases availability while at the same time decreasing the overall cost of data storage and access time. Using the proposed model avoids the overheads of the traditional full replication techniques. The proposed model is mathematically proven to be sound and valid.

An Intelligent Server load balancing based on Multi-criteria decision-making in SDN

In an environment of rising internet usage, it is difficult to manage network traffic while maintaining a high quality of service. In highly trafficked networks, load balancers are crucial for ensuring the quality of service. Although different approaches to load-balancing have been proposed in traditional networks, some of them require manual reconfiguration of the device to accommodate new services due to a lack of programmability. These problems can be solved through the use of software-defined networks. This research paper presents a dynamic load-balancing algorithm for software-defined networks based on server response time and content mapping. The proposed technique dispatches requests to servers based on real-time server loads. This technique comprises three different modules, such as a request classification module, a server monitoring module, and an optimized dynamic load-balancing module using content-based routing. There are a variety of robust mathematical tools to address complex problems that have multiple objectives. Multi-Criteria Decision-Making is one of them. The performance of the proposed scheme has been validated by applying the Weighted Sum Method of the multi-criteria decision-making technique. The proposed method Server load balancing based on Multi-criteria Decision Making[SDLB-MCDM] is compared with different load-balancing schemes such as round robin, random, load-balancing scheme based on server response time [LBBSRT], and An SDN-aided mechanism for web load- balancing based on server statistics [SD-WLB]. The experimental results of SDLB-MCDM show a significant improvement of 58% when weights are equal and 50% when unequal weights are assigned to various QoS parameters in comparison with the ROUND ROBIN, RANDOM, LBBSRT and SD-WLB techniques.

Quality Analysis of Service Load Balancing Using PCC, ECMP, and NTH Methods

One of the solutions to get a better quality of internet service is to utilize load balancing technology. We can use more than one different ISP (Internet Service Provider) which is then balanced with load balancing technology, where this technique is used to distribute the traffic load on two or more connection lines in a balanced way so that traffic can run optimally, maximizing throughput, minimizing response time. and avoid overload on any of the connection lines. This study aims to determine the comparison of Quality of Service load balancing with the PCC, ECMP and NTH methods on Mikrotik. The test method uses the web application www.speedtest.cbn.id, www.fast.com (1 connection), the results will show ping, download speed, upload speed, and monitoring from the Mikrotik router side. The research stages used the Network Development Life Cycle method, namely analysis, design, prototype simulation, implementation, monitoring and management. The results of the research are in the form of a performance comparison between load balancing on 2 internet lines using the PCC, ECMP and NTH methods on the proxy router. Based on the tests carried out as a whole the load balance using the ECMP method is superior and more reliable in terms of failover effects.

Creating a call center test bench for load balancing Asterisk servers in a cluster

The article deals with the issues of increasing throughput in call centers. The current solution is to cluster call servers and evaluate their characteristics to ensure efficient operation and the necessary fault tolerance. It is shown that one of the main aspects of the quality functioning of the call center is load balancing of servers in the cluster.
 The features of the call-center modeling process are considered. The organization scheme of the call center of the company and the network model of the call center have been created. Virtualization technology was used to create a network model of a call center. The VMWare ESXI 6.7 hypervisor and the vCenter client were used as a network configuration platform.
 An analysis of load balancing was carried out using different algorithms and strategies.
 Asterisk PBX was configured and a server cluster was created. A test bench was developed and configured using the Zabbix open source product to explore a cluster of call servers. A bandwidth characteristic for the Asterisk _1 server and a network map were obtained, which actually represents a simulated structure of the call center network.
 The process of load testing on three Asterisk servers and the implementation of Zabbix load balancing capabilities are shown. A custom SIPp session script has been created for accepting calls and load testing. The number of calls that the call center is able to handle is calculated. It has been determined that a single Asterisk server with its current settings can handle a maximum of 915 concurrent calls. The process of load balancing on a cluster of SIP servers has been launched. A cluster of Asterisk servers has been found to be capable of handling 2550 simultaneous calls.

A Study and Implementation of Load Balancing Services provided by Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Provider

A Study and Implementation of Load Balancing Services provided by Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Provider

Overview of Natural Gas Boiler Optimization Technologies and Potential Applications on Gas Load Balancing Services

Natural gas is a fossil fuel that has been widely used for various purposes, including residential and industrial applications. The combustion of natural gas, despite being more environmentally friendly than other fossil fuels such as petroleum, yields significant amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the optimization of natural gas consumption is a vital process in order to ensure that emission targets are met worldwide. Regarding residential consumption, advancements in terms of boiler technology, such as the usage of condensing boilers, have played a significant role in moving towards this direction. On top of that, the emergence of technologies such as smart homes, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence provides opportunities for the development of automated optimization solutions, which can utilize data acquired from the boiler and various sensors in real-time, implement consumption forecasting methodologies, and accordingly provide control instructions in order to ensure optimal boiler functionality. Apart from energy consumption minimization, manual and automated optimization solutions can be utilized for balancing purposes, including natural gas demand response, which has not been sufficiently covered in the existing literature, despite its potential for the gas balancing market. Despite the existence of few research works and solutions regarding pure gas DR, the concept of an integrated demand response has been more widely researched, with the existing literature displaying promising results from the co-optimization of natural gas along with other energy sources, such as electricity and heat.

Request Scheduling Combined With Load Balancing in Mobile-Edge Computing

Edge servers can cache some delay-sensitive and resource-intensive applications to reduce the delay of user tasks. However, due to the limited resources of edge servers, they cannot cache all services and process all user requests like remote clouds. In order to take advantage of the low latency, we need to make full use of the limited resources of the edge servers and reasonably allocate user requests to edge servers for processing. Meanwhile, in order to maintain the efficient and long-term operation of the server cluster, we should also consider the load balancing of the cluster. How to balance the server load while making users have the best experience is an urgent problem to be solved. Solving the problem faces the challenge of the interaction between service placement and request scheduling, the tradeoff between communication and computation, and the consideration of response time and edge server load. We propose the service placement algorithm based on user visits and our request scheduling algorithm based on the simulated annealing algorithm. We verify the superiority of our algorithms in response time and server load balancing. The experimental results based on the real data sets prove our algorithm can cope with the actual situation and quickly converge to a favorable value.