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Volume :23 Issue : 2 1996
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Quasi-static load balancing in local area networks
Auther : MAREK KRAJEWSKI1 AND ULRICH HOFMANN2
1Technical University Dresden
2 University of Salzburg, Austria. email: uho@cosy.sibg. ac. at
ABSTRACT
A computer network provides the means for load balancing (LB) between computers. Most optimal LB-strategies for distributed systems require information about the sensitivity of the performance measure with respect to job flows. For a system consisting of N stations connected by a multiaccess network, the optimal quasistatic, iterative, distributed load balancing algorithm, for a general system wide cost function is set up. The algorithm is based on the gradient projection optimization method with heuristics to accelerate the convergence.