A heuristic approach to load sharing in fault-tolerant distributed systems

Author

Singh, Supreet ; Han, Jia-Yuan ; Stefanek, George

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 May 1991

Firstpage

629

Abstract

The authors discuss their model of a loosely coupled distributed system, and present preliminary results for a heuristic rule-based approach to load balancing. They are currently in the process of implementing load balancing in the presence of faults in some of the constituent nodes of the distributed system. The chief contributions of this research will be in the use of a rule-based expert system approach for solving the problem of task reallocations in fault-tolerant distributed systems

Keywords

distributed processing; expert systems; fault tolerant computing; operating systems (computers); resource allocation; constituent nodes; expert system approach; fault-tolerant distributed systems; heuristic approach; load balancing; load sharing; loosely coupled distributed system; rule-based approach; task reallocations; Cost function; Distributed computing; Electromagnetics; Fault tolerant systems; Mathematical programming; Multiprocessing systems; Network servers; Real time systems; Resource management; Scheduling algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1991., Proceedings of the 34th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0620-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1991.252034

Filename

252034