L3B: Low level load balancer in the cloud

Simjanoska, Monika; Ristov, Sasko; Velkoski, Goran; Gušev, Marjan

doi:10.1109/eurocon.2013.6624994

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“… Monika Simjanoska et al [69] proposed an Archbased solution for load balancing in cloud computing. L3B is a centralized Arch-based load balancer which is placed between users and cloud heterogeneous nodes in the cloud infrastructure layer.…”

Section: B Architectural-based Load Balancing Approaches In Cloud Comentioning

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Load Balancing in Cloud Computing: A State of the Art Survey

Mesbahi

Rahmani

2016

IJMECS

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Abstract-Cloud computing has proposed a new perspective for provisioning the large-scale computing resources by using virtualization technology and a payper-use cost model. Load balancing is taken into account as a vital part for parallel and distributed systems. It helps cloud computing systems by improving the general performance, better computing resources utilization, energy consumption management, enhancing the cloud services' QoS, avoiding SLA violation and maintaining system stability through distribution, controlling and managing the system workloads. In this paper we study the necessary requirements and considerations for designing and implementing a suitable load balancer for cloud environments. In addition we represent a complete survey of current proposed cloud load balancing solutions which according to our classification, they can be classified into three categories: General Algorithm-based, Architectural-based and Artificial Intelligence-based load balancing mechanisms. Finally, we propose our evaluation of these solutions based on suitable metrics and discuss their pros and cons.

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Section: B Architectural-based Load Balancing Approaches In Cloud Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Load Balancing in Cloud Computing: A State of the Art Survey

Mesbahi

Rahmani

2016

IJMECS

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“…Simjanoska et al [10] proposed an architecture for a Low Level Load Balancer (L3B). Their architecture can distribute server load among several machines that are integrated over the communication link [11].…”

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Successful implementation of L3B: Low level load balancer

Cvetkov

Ristov

Gušev

2015

2015 38th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)

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Cloud computing paradigm offers instantiating and deactivating the virtual machine instances on demand according to the clients requirements. When some customer's application or a service needs more resources than a physical server can supply, the cloud provider offers a certain load balancing technique to distribute the load among several servers that will host the analyzed application or service. Additionally, the cloud provider should offer a resource broker to make the application scalable and elastic. In this paper we present a new solution for a low level load balancer, working on a network level. Our load balancer maps the memory addresses of the balancer and the target physical servers (or virtual machines on the cloud) and thus balances the load. The experiments showed that it adds small latency of several milliseconds and thus it slightly reduces the performance when the distributed system is underutilized. However, there is a region of client requests where the system achieves a superlinear speedup (speedup greater than the number of scaled resources). Our case study with doubled resources achieves up to 6.5 speedup (maximum expected linear speedup is 2).

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“…In our previous research, we proposed an architecture of a L3B balancer [3]. We have developed the load balancer and in this paper we present the architecture and design.…”

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“…The internal architecture of the L3B balancer [3] consists of two modules: Resource Management Module (RMM) and Packet Management Module (PMM), as presented in Figure 2 [3]. The purpose of these modules is to realize accounting functions, which is essential for load balancing.…”

Section: A Overall Modelmentioning

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“…CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK In this paper we have presented a new approach for a load balancer, that is, the low level load balancer that works on a network layer of OSI model. The balancer is developed according to the L3B architecture [3], but its implementation have even reduced the performance when two end-point servers are used compared to the case when only one end-point server is used without the L3B balancer.…”

Section: E Performance Analysis Of the L3b Implementationmentioning

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Implementation of a Network Based Cloud Load Balancer

Ristov¹,

Gušev²,

Cvetkov³

et al. 2014

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-Cloud service providers offer their customers to rent or release hardware resources (CPU, RAM, HDD), which are isolated in virtual machine instances, on demand. Increased load on customer applications or web services require more resources than a physical server can supply, which enforces the cloud provider to implement some load balancing technique in order to scatter the load among several virtual or physical servers. Many load balancers exist, both centralized and distributed, with various techniques. In this paper we present a new solution for a low level load balancer (L3B), working on a network level of OSI model. When a network packet arrives, its header is altered in order to forward to some end-point server. After the server replies, the packet's header is also changed using the previously stored mapping and forwarded to the client. Unfortunately, the results of the experiments showed that this implementation did not provide the expected results, i.e., to achieve linear speedup when more server nodes are added.

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L3B: Low level load balancer in the cloud

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Load Balancing in Cloud Computing: A State of the Art Survey

Load Balancing in Cloud Computing: A State of the Art Survey

Successful implementation of L3B: Low level load balancer

Implementation of a Network Based Cloud Load Balancer

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