Distributed Adaptive VoIP Load Balancing in Hybrid Clouds

Cloud computing as a powerful economic stimulus widely being adopted by many companies. However, the management of cloud infrastructure is a challenging task. Reliability, security, quality of service, and cost-efficiency are important issues in these systems. They require resource optimization at multiple layers of the infrastructure and applications. The complexity of cloud computing systems makes infeasible the optimal resource allocation, especially in presence of uncertainty of very dynamic and unpredictable environment. Hence, load balancing algorithms are a fundamental part of the research in cloud computing. We formulate the problem of load balancing in distributed computer environments and review several algorithms. The goal is to understand the main characteristics of dynamic load balancing algorithms and how they can be adapted for the domain of VoIP computations on hybrid clouds. We conclude by showing how none of these works directly addresses the problem space of the considered problem, but do provide a valuable basis for our work.