GLOB: generic load balancing

Author

Verwoerd, Theuns ; Hunt, Ray

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand

fYear

2001

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

75

Abstract

Current load balancing solutions are capable of improving the throughput of network service clusters, but they suffer from fundamental structural limitations. In particular, these systems do not cater for balancing gateway systems, such as NAT devices or firewalls. We propose a generic load balancing system (GLOB). GLOB is a client-transparent, peer-to-peer adaptive load balancing system that uses statistically configured packet filters. It offers an alternative to conventional distribution point load balancing schemes, and is specifically suited to gateway systems. Finally, comparative results of our GLOB model relative to mainstream load balancing scheduling schemes is presented.

Keywords

client-server systems; computer network management; network servers; resource allocation; GLOB; NAT devices; client server system; firewalls; gateway systems; generic load balancing; peer-to-peer adaptive system; statistically configured packet filters; Adaptive systems; Availability; Computer science; Computer security; Control systems; Load management; Network address translation; Peer to peer computing; Probes; Round robin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2001. Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1187-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2001.962319

Filename

962319