Implementation of the load balancing algorithm over a local area network and the internet

Author

Ghanem, J. ; Abdallah, C.T. ; Hayat, M. ; Dhakal, S. ; Birdwell, J.D. ; Chiasson, J. ; Tang, Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

4199

Abstract

In this paper, experimental evaluation of the load balancing algorithm in real environments is presented. We emphasize the effects of delays on the exchange of information among nodes, and the constraints these effects impose on the design of a load balancing strategy. Two testbeds in two different real environments have been built; the first implementation was over a local area network whereas the second was over Planet-Lab. The results show the effect of network delays and variances in the task processing time on choosing adequate gain values for the load balancing algorithm.

Keywords

Internet; delays; local area networks; resource allocation; Internet; Planet-Lab; gain values; information exchange; load balancing algorithm; local area network; network delays; nodes; task processing time; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Delay effects; Distributed computing; IP networks; Load management; Local area networks; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2004. CDC. 43rd IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8682-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2004.1429411

Filename

1429411