The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 1334-1340
Published online 2015 September 15. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509011334
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-1334

Research on Cloud Computing Load Balancing Based on Virtual Machine Migration

Liu Kun , Xu Gaochao and Chen Jingxia
College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, 130012, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

This article is designed to solve the problem of system load imbalance and low efficiency introduced by massive parallel tasks running on some heavy nodes in the Cloud Computing environment. This study proposes a load balancing algorithm based on virtual machine migration which includes load balancing architecture, load gathering, load monitoring, load forecasting, migration trigger time, source machine selecting and etc. Experimental results based on the CloudSim tool reveal that the algorithm can guarantee load balancing and improve the performance of the system.

Keywords:

Cloud computing, load balancing, migration, virtual machine.