Title :
An architecture for wide area network load balancing
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Labs. of America Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present a wide area network (WAN) load balancing architecture in this paper. This architecture provides a high degree of reliability, availability, flexibility and scalability. The scalability allows any number of load balancing servers to be deployed in a network. The reliability and availability allows the load balancing servers to be deployed anywhere in the network. The flexibility allows server selection to be applied to individual packets as well as to user sessions dynamically. In addition, this architecture supports a flexible way of selecting the load balancing servers to achieve desired performance. We also compare our architecture with some of the previous work to illustrate it advantages, effectiveness and practicality in fulfilling the requirements of WAN load balancing
Keywords :
computer network reliability; network servers; packet switching; performance evaluation; wide area networks; WAN load balancing architecture; information flow; load balancing servers; network availability; network reliability; network scalability; performance; server selection; user sessions; wide area network load balancing architecture; Availability; Delay; Helium; Load management; Local area networks; Network servers; Scalability; Telecommunication traffic; Web server; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2000. ICC 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6283-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2000.853681
