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An Adversarial Model for Distributed Dynamic Load Balancing (1998)
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@MISC{Muthukrishnan98anadversarial,
author = {S. Muthukrishnan and Rajmohan Rajaraman},
title = {An Adversarial Model for Distributed Dynamic Load Balancing},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
We study the problem of balancing the load on processors of an arbitrary network. If jobs arrive or depart during the process of load balancing, we have the dynamic load balancing problem; otherwise, we have the static load balancing problem. While static load balancing on arbitrary and special networks has been well studied, very little is known about dynamic load balancing. The difficulty lies in modeling the arrivals and departures of jobs in a clean manner. In this paper, we initiate the study of dynamic load balancing by modeling job traffic using an adversary. Our main result is that a simple, local control distributed load balancing algorithm maintains the load of the network within a stable level against this powerful adversary. Our results hold for different models of traffic patterns and processor communication. 1 Introduction An important problem in a distributed system is to balance the total workload among the various processors of the underlying system. Such load balan...
Keyphrases
adversarial model distributed dynamic load balancing dynamic load balancing powerful adversary main result traffic pattern load balancing stable level important problem various processor processor communication clean manner special network arbitrary network distributed system static load dynamic load balancing problem different model underlying system static load balancing problem local control total workload job traffic load balan
