Resource-Aware Allocation and Load-Balancing Algorithms for Cloud Computing

Some Important Research Questions

With these goals in mind, the following research questions will help the researcher to explore the most efficient intelligent load balancing algorithm for dynamic internet hosting.

• 1.

  Under what conditions the prediction of Cicada cannot be reliable to predict the amount of workload in a dynamic internet hosting platform?

• 2.

  Under what conditions CloudSim cannot generate a reliable workload simulation?

Cloud computing services play a major role in today’s computing. Leading information technology companies like Amazon’s AWS, HP, Microsoft, and Google deploy large data centers with extensive hardware network for effective service delivery to cloud clients. Cloud service providers require proper resource management and provisioning to allow clients to access cloud services from the internet. In recent years, cloud service providers have shifted towards dynamic resource management to enable sharing of cloud computing resources between different users. Dynamic cloud computing technique enables resources to be assigned to different clients based on the current demand of each client turning the cloud to a limitless computational platform with limitless storage space which improves the performance of cloud services. To achieve best resource allocation in dynamic hosting frameworks, cloud service providers should provision resources intelligently to all clients. This intelligent resource balancing is known as workload balancing in a cloud service. Cloud service environments have adapted different provisioning strategies to improve their service level. Today cloud computing enables companies to delivery different computing services such as storages, software, and databases to their clients over the Internet. This resource sharing technique enables organizations to focus on their main objectives rather than on computer infrastructure and maintenance. There are two resource management models, static and dynamic. Initially, cloud computing services were introduced as static computing services where a specific amount of resources was assigned to specific organizations however over the time with the rapid growth of computing needs for many organizations and business, dynamic cloud computing was introduced. Dynamic cloud computing allowed cloud service providers to share and assign resources based on the demand for a specific workload. The dynamic resource management model enabled limitless computational platform with unlimited storage which improves the performance of cloud computing. For instance, in a static computing, any outrages can generate downtime, wherein dynamic computing, if any outages occur the computing job can be automatically shifted to another location.