BALANCING USER REGISTRATION LIFETIMES IN A NETWORK

摘要

A method of balancing user registration lifetimes in a network is disclosed for smoothing the load of the registration server. The method of balancing user registration lifetimes in a network includes providing an initial registration lifetime for a registration request that is calculated using the time of the request and the previous history of registration requests, and in a particular embodiment, using the cumulative distribution function of the history of registration requests. The method of balancing user registration lifetimes in a network is particularly useful for handling spikes in registration traffic, and can accommodate user-specified variable lifetimes, as well dynamic user arrivals and departures. It provides effective load balancing over time for a single server, at the expense of a constant factor additive load per user, which can be amortized to near zero over the long run.