Open AccessSecure and energy aware load balancing framework for cloud data centre networks
Author(s) -
Singh A.K.,
Kumar J.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2019.0022
Subject(s) - server , cloud computing , computer science , load balancing (electrical power) , distributed computing , virtualization , data center , computer network , virtual machine , heuristic , cloud server , resource (disambiguation) , side channel attack , computer security , operating system , cryptography , mathematics , grid , geometry , artificial intelligence
In a cloud system, a malicious user initiates the side channel attacks to steal the private information of other users that share the computing resources through virtualisation. In this Letter, the authors propose a multi‐objective load balancing framework to minimise the likelihood of these attacks by reducing the number of shared servers along with efficient use of computing resources and power. The proposed framework significantly improves the security by reducing the shared servers up to 55.83% and improves the resource and power usage up to 96.54 and 21.97%, respectively, over best fit, first fit and random heuristic schemes.