Hybrid Load Balancing Approach based on the Integration of QoS and Power Consumption in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Over the past few years, there has been keen research interest in load balancing and task scheduling in the cloud as the extensive amount of data that is stored in the server leads to significantly increased load. This can be resolved by using a hybrid algorithm in which the honeybee behavior algorithm’s advantages are integrated with fuzzy logic to conduct task scheduling and as well as balancing in the cloud. The design of this hybrid algorithm aims to enhance prior approaches. It is developed as per ABC and merges the important QoS factors along with power consumption so that the power that virtual machines (VMs) consume on the host can be precisely assessed, thereby ensuring efficient load balancing algorithm. The present study aims to evaluate the VMs’ power consumption by taking into account crucial QoS factors for selecting which host and virtual machine will be best suited for receiving the task. CloudSim was used to simulate the ILBA_HB algorithm. In terms of makespan, average response time, and degree of imbalance, the performance of the ILBA HB algorithm is compared to that of the LBA HB and HBB-LB algorithms. According to the results, the proposed algorithm outperformed LBA_HB and HBB-LB.