Agent Based Framework for Scalability in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing focuses on delivery of reliable, secure, fault- tolerant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructures for hosting internet-based application services. These applications have different composition, configuration, and deployment requirements. Cloud service providers are willing to provide large scaled computing infrastructure at a cheap prices. Quantifying the performance of scheduling and allocation policy on a Cloud infrastructure (hardware, software, services) for different application and service models under varying load, energy performance (power consumption, heat dissipation), and system size is an extremely challenging problem to tackle. This problem can be tackle with the help of mobile agents. Mobile agent being a process that can transport its state from one environment to another, with its data intact, and is capable of performing appropriately in the new environment. This work proposes an agent based framework for providing scalability in cloud computing environments supported with algorithms for searching another cloud when the approachable cloud becomes overloaded and for searching closest datacenters with least response time of virtual machine (VM).