1) Load balancing is an important issue in cloud computing to improve performance and resource utilization. It aims to distribute tasks evenly among nodes to prevent overloading some nodes while leaving others idle.
2) There are two main categories of load balancing algorithms: static and dynamic. Static algorithms do not consider current system state while dynamic algorithms react to changing system states.
3) Prior research on load balancing in cloud computing has proposed approaches such as using a genetic algorithm to optimize load balancing and addressing delays in dynamic load balancing.