Analysis of variants in Round Robin Algorithms for load balancing in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the emerging internet based technology which emphasizes commercial computing. Cloud is a platform providing dynamic pool resources and virtualization. Based on a pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and business domains. To properly manage the resources of the service provider, load balancing is required for the jobs that are submitted to the service provider. Load balancing also helps in improving the performance of the centralized server. In the present work, various policies in relation to the algorithms developed are analyzed using an analysis tool, namely, cloud analyst. Comparison is also made for variants of Round Robin (RR) algorithms. Keywords—Cloud Computing; Virtual machines; Cloud service provider; Cloud Analyst; CloudSim; Cloud Service broker.