IMPROVED ANT COLONY LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHM IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing is an emerging computing paradigm. It aims to share data, calculations, and service transparently over a scalable network of nodes. Since Cloud computing stores the data and disseminated resources in the open environment. Since, cloud has inherited characteristic of distributed computing and virtualization there is a possibility of machines getting unused. Hence, in this paper, a load balancing algorithm has been proposed to avoid deadlocks and to provide proper utilization of all the Virtual Machines (VMs) while processing the requests received from the users by VM migration. Further, this paper also provides the anticipated results with the implementation of the proposed algorithm. The main contributions of our work is to balance the entire system load while trying to minimize the make span of a given set of jobs. Compared with the other job scheduling algorithms, the improved Ant Colony Optimization algorithm can outperform them according to the experimental results.