Analyze the Various Performance Metrics of Load Balancing Algorithms and Techniques in Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology that has benefitted the individuals and organizations greatly. It offers several advantages like pooling of resources, cost efficiency, scalability and flexibility but can also exhibit some challenges, one of which can be performance related challenges due to poor management of the available resources and work load. Load balancing in cloud computing refers to the process of distributing workloads and computing resources in the cloud computing environment. On basis of these algorithms, client requests are directed to the servers. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study a few of the existing load balancing algorithms and techniques in cloud computing and critically analyze the various performance metrics that affect the load balancing decisions. On basis of this review, a proposal has been made to combine load balancing algorithms with task priority to further enhance the performance of cloud computing systems.