A Heuristic Virtual Machine Scheduling Method for Load Balancing in Fog-Cloud Computing

Xiaolong Xu, Qingxiang Liu, Lianyong Qi, Yuan Yuan, Wanchun Dou, Alex X. Liu

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Abstract

Fog computing is emerging as a powerful and popular computing paradigm, which extends cloud computing paradigm to enable the service execution in the edge network. The mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) applications could choose the computing nodes in both fog and cloud for resource provisioning. Generally, load balancing is one of the key factors to achieve resource efficiency and avoid bottleneck, overloaded and low-load resource usage. However, it is still a challenge to realize the load balancing for the computing nodes in the fog-cloud environment. In view of this challenge, a Virtual Machine (VM) scheduling method for load balancing in fog-cloud computing is proposed in this paper. Technically, a resource model and a load balancing model are analyzed first. Then a heuristic VM scheduling method is designed through VM placement and dynamic VM scheduling by leveraging the VM live migration technique. Consequentially, experimental evaluation and comparison analysis are conducted to validate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, BigDataSecurity 2018, 4th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, HPSC 2018 and 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, IDS 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages83-88
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538643990
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Nov 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, BigDataSecurity 2018, 4th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, HPSC 2018 and 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, IDS 2018 - Omaha, United States
Duration: 3 May 20185 May 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, BigDataSecurity 2018, 4th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, HPSC 2018 and 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, IDS 2018

Conference

Conference4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, BigDataSecurity 2018, 4th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, HPSC 2018 and 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security, IDS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOmaha
Period3/05/185/05/18

Keywords

  • cloud
  • fog computing
  • load balancing
  • VM placement
  • VM scheduling

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