International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The demand for cloud computing resources is increasing due to its accessibility everywhere at any time. When the number of clients for cloud services increases, the load on the cloud nodes becomes high. This status requires load balancing to evenly distribute client requests among the available Virtual Machines (VMs) in a Data Center (DC). There are different standard dynamic load balancing techniques, such as Throttled and Active Monitoring. In this paper, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is incorporated with a throttled to improve load balancing. The improvement is achieved by enhancing the overall response time, the data center processing time, and the maximum resource utilization. Simulation results show the improved performance of the proposed method compared to the ESCE and Throttled.