AN ENHANCED ROUND ROBIN VIRTUAL MACHINE LOAD BALANCER FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE.

With continuous increase in volume of data and its computational capacity in cloud, support for users request in cloud cannot be ignored. Considering problem of load imbalance resulting in high throughput and response time, there is the need therefore to develop a better model that will improve resource utility and performance of distributed systems so as to reduce response and processing time while providing better Virtual Machine (VM) efficiency. This paper analysed Round Robin load balancing algorithm and the deficiencies of this algorithm served as a basis for improvement in the proposed load balancer. The proposed algorithm has three phases; VM categorization phase that re-arrange VMs in the increasing order of their processing speed with 80% of total threshold value of each VM computed. Allocation phase helps find suitable VM for execution of cloudlet and the reliability assessment phase ensures that each VM performs at it optimal level before its consideration for allocation of cloudlets. An extensive simulation was carried out to evaluate the proposed algorithm using cloud analyst simulator. Results obtained from simulation shows that the proposed algorithm yields better response time, datacentre processing time and a lower turnaround time than the existing round robin load balancing algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]