Title: Design and analysis of novel hybrid load balancing algorithm for cloud data centre

Authors: Ajay Kumar Dubey; Vimal Mishra

Addresses: APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: In recent years there is paradigm shift in computing, now data is used to store and compute in cloud environment. The Cloud Service Provider (CSP) maintains a huge shared pool of computing resources that provides on-demand services. The cloud customers are able to access the services and pay according to uses. When millions of users across the globe connect to cloud for their storage and computational needs, there might be issues such as delay in services. The proposed Novel Hybrid Load Balancing (NHLB) algorithm manages the load of the virtual machine in data centre. This paper is focused on certain problems like optimisation of performance, maximum throughput, minimisation of makespan, etc. NHLB algorithm is more efficient than conventional load balancing algorithms with reducing makespan, load imbalance and standard deviation. We compare the result of proposed NHLB algorithm with dynamic load balancing algorithm and honeybee algorithm. The result shows that the proposed NHLB algorithm is better than the dynamic and honeybee algorithms.

Keywords: cloud computing; data centre; load balancing; virtual machine; makespan; performance optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2025.147665

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2025 Vol.16 No.4, pp.349 - 362

Received: 18 Jul 2020
Accepted: 05 Jan 2021
Published online: 25 Jul 2025 *

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