Experimental evaluation of distributed load balancing implementations
✍ Scribed by Vaughan, John G.; O'Donovan, Mary
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-3108
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✦ Synopsis
The evaluation of load balancing algorithms for use in general-purpose distributed systems has traditionally been carried out by discrete event simulation. This paper describes a testbed which supports the artificial creation of workload and the measurement of performance for load balancing algorithm implementations based on job migration in a small distributed system. Nine load balancing algorithms are implemented and evaluated under a range of environmental conditions. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of load balancing and indicate the superiority of the centralised non-adaptive and distributed adaptive approaches. ©1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.