Resource scheduling in cloud using harmony search

Cloud computing is an emerging technology and is getting popular because of its advantages. Cloud computing is a computing paradigm used to provide software, infrastructure and platform as a service to users via the internet. It's a challenging problem to manage cloud computing resources efficiently. The objective is to allocate resources to user's requests such that user requests are completed in minimum time and resources are used efficiently. To solve the cloud scheduling problem, different algorithms are proposed. Based on Harmony Search, a new metaheuristic scheduling approach is discussed in this paper and its performance is evaluated against the sample data.