Effective load balancing for cloud-based multimedia system

Cloud computing, as a new concept, provides a good solution for handling multimedia applications effectively and efficiently. It can facilitate the execution of complicated multimedia tasks, as well as supports specific and stringent multimedia QoS provisioning. However, for this new idea, a key challenge is how to make each multimedia service task to obtain the required resources in the shortest time. In this paper, we propose an effective load balancing approach for cloud-based multimedia system, called CMLB. Its main advantage is fully considering the load of all servers and the network conditions, and thus achieving reasonable resource allocation and scheduling. The evaluation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.