Optimal virtual machine selection for anomaly detection using a swarm intelligence approach

Abstract Cloud computing plays a significant role in Healthcare Service (HCS) applications and rapidly improves it. A significant challenge is the selection of Virtual Machine (VM) in order to process a medical request. The optimal selection of VM increases the performance of HCS by minimizing the running time of the medical request and also substantially utilizes cloud resources. This paper presents a new idea for optimizing VM selection using a swarm intelligence approach called Analogous Particle swarm optimization (APSO) which works a cloud computing environment. To compute the running time of a medical request, three parameters are considered: Turnaround Time (TAT), Waiting time (WT), and CPU utilization. In addition, a selected optimal VM is used for predicting kidney disease. Early detection of kidney disease facilitates successful treatment. Here, the neural network is used as an automated technique to diagnose kidney disease. A set of experiments and comparisons were performed to analyze the proposed system (APSO and neural network). The results showed that the APSO model performed well, with an execution time of running all particle is 1 s (50 to 80%). Also, the proposed model improved the system efficiency by 5.6%. The precision of recognizing kidney disease using the neural network was 95.7% which outperfomed five other well-known classifiers.