Load Balancing in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is an effective alternative information technology paradigm with its on-demand resource provisioning and high reliability. This technology has the potential to offer virtualized, distributed, and elastic resources as utilities to users. Cloud computing offers numerous types of computing and storage means by connecting to a vast pool of systems. However, because of its large data handling property, the major issue the technology facing is the load balancing problem. Load balancing is the maximum resource utilization with effective management of load imbalance. This chapter shares information about logical and physical resources, load balancing metrics, challenges and techniques, and also gives some suggestions that could be helpful for future studies.