Title :
A fault-tolerant load-balancing protocol for distributed multiserver queuing systems
Author :
Kostin, Alexander ; Oz, Gurcu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Eastern Mediterranean Univ., Mersin, Turkey
Abstract :
A simple and efficient scheme to achieve fault tolerance in a new load-balancing protocol for a distributed multiserver queuing system is proposed. It is assumed that the distributed queuing system consists of a job producer and a number of independent servers, or workers, who compete for produced jobs. All communications between the job producer and workers in the underlying network are based on reliable multicast. The proposed scheme is empirically investigated in a LAN of Ethernet type on a cluster of computers.
Keywords :
fault tolerance; local area networks; multicast communication; protocols; queueing theory; resource allocation; Ethernet; computer cluster; distributed multiserver queuing system; fault tolerance; load-balancing protocol; local area network; multicast communication; Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Load management; Local area networks; Network servers; Protocols; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communication, 2003. (ISCC 2003). Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1961-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214276
