A LITERATURE REVIEW ON LOAD BALANCING MECHANISMS IN CLOUD COMPUTING.

Cloud computing is a emerging technology in the present and the days to come for providing different kind of services to the end users. It focuses mainly the dynamic services using very large scalable and virtualized resources over the Internet. The allocation of the group of resources may start a problem of availability of these resources and distributing the workload of all the VMs among themselves called as load balancing. Load balancing is a challenging phenomenon in cloud computing. It ensures that no single node is overloaded by distributing the workload among the nodes properly. This is done to improve the results of the system. Due to novelty of cloud computing field, there is no many standard load balancing algorithm used in cloud environment. Hence efficient utilization of resources must be important and for that load balancing plays a major role to get maximum benefit from the resources. Having understood the vital role of load balancing, this paper covers various load balancing algorithms related to cloud computing and shows a comparative study on load balancing algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]