@inproceedings{2e45e1f1f7d844aca8b2f3a6f99d618f,
title = "Simulated-annealing load balancing for resource allocation in cloud environments",
abstract = "Recently, the development of cloud computing has received considerable attention. For cloud service providers, packing VMs onto a small number of servers is an effective way to reduce energy costs, so as to improve the efficiency of the data center. However allocating too many VMs on a physical machine may cause some hot spots which violate the SLA of applications. Load balancing of the entire system is hence needed to guarantee the SLA. In this paper, we present a simulated-annealing load balancing algorithm for solving the resource allocation and scheduling problem in a cloud computing environment. Experimental results show that this method is able to achieve load balancing, and performs better than the round robin and basic simulated-annealing algorithms.",
keywords = "cloud computing, load balancing, simulated annealing algorithm, virtual machine",
author = "Zongqin Fan and Hong Shen and Yanbo Wu and Yidong Li",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.; 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2013 ; Conference date: 16-12-2013 Through 18-12-2013",
year = "2014",
month = sep,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1109/PDCAT.2013.7",
language = "English",
series = "Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1--6",
editor = "Shi-Jinn Horng",
booktitle = "Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}