The growing demand for rapid processing of large and heavy computational tasks, coupled with the advancements in networks and distributed systems, has led to the development of cloud computing systems. In cloud computing, all user needs are provided in a shared environment as services on-demand and as required. One of the significant challenges in cloud-based systems infrastructure is solving the problem of optimal and efficient load distribution. In other words, assigning more virtual machines to a single physical server leads to issues such as non-optimal resource allocation and load imbalance. Hence, the load among physical servers and, consequently, the entire system load must be balanced. It has been proven that the load balancing problem in cloud computing falls under the NP-hard category, and thus, various researchers have used heuristic, metaheuristic, greedy, and other algorithms to solve it. In this paper, the load balancing problem in cloud computing is considered as an optimization problem, and the Lion Optimization Algorithm (LOA) is used to solve it. The proposed method is simulated in MATLAB software and compared with Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing (SA). The experimental results indicate that the proposed approach significantly improves load balancing in the allocation of virtual machines compared to GA and SA algorithms.
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Esmaeili Moshiran,A. and Babaei,S. (2020). Load Balancing of Servers in Cloud Computing Using the Lion Optimization Algorithm. Transactions on Machine Intelligence, 3(4), 240-250. doi: 10.47176/TMI.2020.240
MLA
Esmaeili Moshiran,A. , and Babaei,S. . "Load Balancing of Servers in Cloud Computing Using the Lion Optimization Algorithm", Transactions on Machine Intelligence, 3, 4, 2020, 240-250. doi: 10.47176/TMI.2020.240
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Esmaeili Moshiran A., Babaei S. (2020). 'Load Balancing of Servers in Cloud Computing Using the Lion Optimization Algorithm', Transactions on Machine Intelligence, 3(4), pp. 240-250. doi: 10.47176/TMI.2020.240
CHICAGO
A. Esmaeili Moshiran and S. Babaei, "Load Balancing of Servers in Cloud Computing Using the Lion Optimization Algorithm," Transactions on Machine Intelligence, 3 4 (2020): 240-250, doi: 10.47176/TMI.2020.240
VANCOUVER
Esmaeili Moshiran A., Babaei S. Load Balancing of Servers in Cloud Computing Using the Lion Optimization Algorithm. Trans. Mach. Intell., 2020; 3(4): 240-250. doi: 10.47176/TMI.2020.240
