Energy Efficient Load Balancing in Cloud Data Center Using Clustering Technique
Authored by N Thilagavathi, D Divya Dharani, R Sasilekha, Vasundhara Suruliandi, V Rhymend Uthariaraj
Date Published: 2019
DOI: 10.4018/ijiit.2019010104
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Abstract
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth in recent days. As a result
of this, there has been a great increase in the growth of data centers
all over the world. These data centers consume a lot of energy,
resulting in high operating costs. The imbalance in load distribution
among the servers in the data center results in increased energy
consumption. Server consolidation can be handled by migrating all
virtual machines in those underutilized servers. Migration causes
performance degradation of the job, based on the migration time and
number of migrations. Considering these aspects, the proposed clustering
agent-based model improves energy saving by efficient allocation of the
VMs to the hosting servers, which reduces the response time for initial
allocation. Middle VM migration (MVM) strategy for server consolidation
minimizes the number of VM migrations. Further, randomization of extra
resource requirement done to cater to real-time scenarios needs more
resource requirements than the initial requirement. Simulation results
show that the proposed approach reduces the number of migrations and
response time for user request and improves energy saving in the cloud
environment.
Tags
Agent-based model
Migration
Clustering
Optimization
Energy efficiency
Energy consumption
Framework
Resource-allocation
Cloud computing
Load balancing
Server consolidation