Static Load Balancing for Cost Minimization in Distributed Computing Systems

摘要

Load balancing is essential for improving the performance of a distributed computing system. In this paper, we study a price-based static load balancing scheme for single-class job distributed systems where the computing resources are connected by a single channel communications network. The objective of the load balancing scheme is to minimize the cost for executing all the jobs in the system. The performance of the studied load balancing scheme is compared with other existing schemes using distributed system models with various system loads and parameters.