While load balancing techniques have been designed and evaluated for efficient resource utilization in cloud computing, achieving energy efficiency as a consequence of load balancing often does not get direct attention. In this paper we describe two load balancing algorithms that focus on balancing workload distribution among physical hosts in the cloud infrastructure. The test results presente...

In this paper we present a game theoretic framework for obtaining a user-optimal load balancing scheme in heterogeneous distributed systems. We formulate the static load balancing problem in heterogeneous distributed systems as a noncooperative game among users. For the proposed noncooperative load balancing game, we present the structure of the Nash equilibrium. Based on this structure we deri...

Abstract—Scheduling of jobs in web cluster of servers is a major research activity in Distributed Computing System (DCS). A key issue in server load balancing in a DCS is to select an effective load balancing scheme to distribute clients’ requests to the servers. This paper considers weighted round robin, shortest queue and diffusive load balancing policies. Performance of each of these policie...