An effective load balancing mechanism maximizes the throughput minimizes the response time with fault tolerance. Load imbalance problems occasionally occur during the over-demanding of resources from VMs. Load balance mechanisms manage the load by allocating jobs and reallocation of VMs. This...

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud supports flexible and agile execution of applications by creating virtualized execution environment namely, virtual machines (VMs) with on-demand infrastructural resources. In such environment, VM migration is used as a tool to facilitate system...

As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT infrastructure by lowering capital and operational expenses. This is the result of economies of scale and the possibility for...