Artificial bee colony based live migration technique for cloud data centers

Cloud computing plays significant role in our society, because it provides wide range of applications by making use of Internet. Cloud Computing provide services to its users based upon “pay as you go” model. However, providing high availability to cloud resources to its users is still an open area of research. Cloud service provider utilizes workflow scheduling techniques to minimize the waiting time of users. But, majority of scheduling techniques are NP-Completer in nature. Therefore, in this paper artificial bee colony based workflow scheduling technique is proposed in this paper. Live migration is also done to balance the load between available virtual machines. Extensive experiments have been performed by considering the proposed techniques. Experimental results reveal that proposed technique outperforms others in terms of makespan, execution cost, efficiency, utilization, energy consumption, and speedup.