Analytical literature survey on existing load balancing schemes in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is the growing technology of large scale distributed computing. It provides on-demand access to distributed resources, which are available in open environment on paid basis. Because all most all the industries now a days want to use these services to reduce infrastructure and maintenance cost, therefore the load on cloud is increasing day by day. Balancing load is one of the biggest issue that cloud computing is facing today. It simply means that there should be a provision so that no node is overloaded. The load be distributed fairly among all the nodes. Load balancing also promotes optimal utilization of resources and increase throughput. This paper will discuss about balancing the load in cloud environment, need of load balancing, existing literature on load balancing algorithms, and widely used performance metrics for load balancing and detailed analysis on the algorithms taken in the literature.