A cooperative game method for load balancing in cloud based on cost-efficiency

Nowadays, cloud computing is considered as an internet evolution and will be the support for future internet development. In this paper, we abstract the load balancing problem in cloud computing as a model that a few of users occupying the computing resources, and introduce the price variation into the model. We formulate this problem as a cooperative game among job processing nodes. Processors work cooperatively together to finish jobs execution with minimal costs. From the experiment result, the algorithm proposed in this paper has better fairness of processors than that of traditional algorithm and improves the efficiency of the system.