A SURVEY AND TAXONOMY ON TASK SCHEDULING IN CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS

Cloud computing can be thought of as a virtualization based approach for rendering various types of services to remote computers on demand. The services include software, hardware or even rendering platform for clients. Task Scheduling in Cloud based platforms is a critical task that is pivotal for load balancing for cloud computing applications. The task scheduling approaches are framed with an aim to optimize the latency and throughput of the system. The paper starts with the basics of cloud computing, the need for task scheduling and the salient parameters which are needed to evaluate the performance of the system. A survey of previous existing systems focusing on task scheduling for optimal load balancing have been analyzed with their salient characteristics.