Title: Implementation of Octavia's OpenStack for futuristic cloud computing by optimisation of resources and traffics
Authors: R. Nathiya; S.K. Piramu Preethika
Addresses: Department of Information Technology, School of Computing Sciences, Vels Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 117, India ' Department of Information Technology, School of Computing Sciences, Vels Institute of Science Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 117, India
Abstract: The internet provides computing resources as a service on demand using cloud computing. In order to remedy this, locals have access to a range of open-source cloud operating systems, enabling them to use the cloud for useful reasons. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack offer open-source cloud operating systems. Only OpenStack is free and has a substantial user base out of all of these. Private institutions and corporations install and use gratis. Lifeline: cloud load balancing. In order to avoid website failures and other operational problems, it's critical to balance traffic when websites face unexpected traffic spikes. This paper discusses the concept and methods for automatic load balancing in OpenStack to help control bandwidth and stresses among virtual machines. Reduce traffic and maximise resources. The OpenStack networking function LBaaS balances load. Service provider OpenStack is open-source. Users and others can create private clouds and virtual computers for work. An OpenStack LBaaS architecture for dynamic load-balancing clouds is presented here.
Keywords: cloud computing; LBaaS; load balancer; network traffic; OpenStack Octavia; Octavia; bandwidth and stresses; SDDC; software-defined data centers; SDN; software defined networking.
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSE.2025.149714
International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2025 Vol.15 No.5, pp.488 - 508
Received: 10 Jun 2023
Accepted: 04 Sep 2023
Published online: 11 Nov 2025 *