A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments
As current data centers and servers are growing in size by orders of magnitude when needed, load balancing is a great concern in scalable computing systems, including mobile edge cloud computing environments. In mobile edge cloud computing systems, a mobile user can offload its tasks to nearby edge...
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| description | As current data centers and servers are growing in size by orders of magnitude when needed, load balancing is a great concern in scalable computing systems, including mobile edge cloud computing environments. In mobile edge cloud computing systems, a mobile user can offload its tasks to nearby edge servers to support real-time applications. However, when users are located in a hot spot, several edge servers can be overloaded due to suddenly offloaded tasks from mobile users. In this paper, we present a load balancing algorithm for mobile devices in edge cloud computing environments. The proposed load balancing technique features an efficient complexity by a graph coloring-based implementation based on a genetic algorithm. The aim of the proposed load balancing algorithm is to distribute offloaded tasks to nearby edge servers in an efficient way. Performance results show that the proposed load balancing algorithm outperforms previous techniques and increases the average CPU usage of virtual machines, which indicates a high utilization of edge servers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e06e2ae12413419b9d6496b21bddacfa2023-11-19T22:30:17ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922020-04-019468610.3390/electronics9040686A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing EnvironmentsJongBeom Lim0DaeWon Lee1Department of Game & Multimedia Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do 15073, KoreaDepartment of Computer Engineering, Seokyeong University, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02713, KoreaAs current data centers and servers are growing in size by orders of magnitude when needed, load balancing is a great concern in scalable computing systems, including mobile edge cloud computing environments. In mobile edge cloud computing systems, a mobile user can offload its tasks to nearby edge servers to support real-time applications. However, when users are located in a hot spot, several edge servers can be overloaded due to suddenly offloaded tasks from mobile users. In this paper, we present a load balancing algorithm for mobile devices in edge cloud computing environments. The proposed load balancing technique features an efficient complexity by a graph coloring-based implementation based on a genetic algorithm. The aim of the proposed load balancing algorithm is to distribute offloaded tasks to nearby edge servers in an efficient way. Performance results show that the proposed load balancing algorithm outperforms previous techniques and increases the average CPU usage of virtual machines, which indicates a high utilization of edge servers.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/4/686load balancingedge cloud computinggraph coloringgenetic algorithmcloud consolidation |
| spellingShingle | JongBeom Lim DaeWon Lee A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments Electronics load balancing edge cloud computing graph coloring genetic algorithm cloud consolidation |
| title | A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments |
| title_full | A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments |
| title_fullStr | A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments |
| title_short | A Load Balancing Algorithm for Mobile Devices in Edge Cloud Computing Environments |
| title_sort | load balancing algorithm for mobile devices in edge cloud computing environments |
| topic | load balancing edge cloud computing graph coloring genetic algorithm cloud consolidation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/4/686 |
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