An efficient load balancing system using adaptive dragonfly algorithm in cloud computing

Abstract

With the rapid development of processing and storage technologies and the success of the Internet, computing resources have become cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitously available than ever before. This technological trend has enabled the realization of a new computing model, called cloud computing. In cloud, scheduling is an important application. In cloud environments, load balancing task scheduling is an important problem that directly affects resource utilization. Undoubtedly, load balancing scheduling is a serious aspect that should be considered because of its significant impact on both the back end and the front end of the cloud research industry. Good resource utilization is achieved whenever an effective load balance is achieved in the cloud. But, load balancing in cloud computing is an NP-hard optimization problem. In order to accomplish this problem, a novel load balancing task scheduling algorithm in cloud using Adaptive Dragonfly algorithm (ADA) is proposed. The ADA is a combination of dragonfly algorithm and firefly algorithm. Moreover, to attain the better performance, multi-objective function is developed based on three parameters namely, completion time, processing costs and load. Finally, the performance of proposed methodology is evaluated in terms of different metrics namely, execution cost and execution time. The experimental results demonstrate that a proposed approach accomplishes better load balancing result compared to other approaches.