Scheduling Algorithms for Cloud: A Survey and Analysis

Cloud Computing is a fast growing computing paradigm due to the vast benefits it provides to the users. Scheduling becomes one of the key aspects due to the pay-as-you-go nature of the Cloud. The factors affecting the technique of scheduling applied change with change in scenarios. For instance for scheduling in hybrid clouds the data transfer speed has to be taken into consideration whereas for mobile environments scheduling becomes dependent on context change. Moreover scheduling can be improvised on many fronts such as energy efficiency, cost minimization, Maximization of resource utilization, etc. This paper surveys scheduling techniques in various Cloud Computing scenarios and sites the most efficient scheduling technique available for a particular set of user needs by comparing various techniques and the problems they address