Title :
Using the Right Amount of Monitoring in Adaptive Load Sharing
Author :
Breitgand, David ; Cohen, Rami ; Nahir, Amir ; Raz, Danny
Author_Institution :
IBM Haifa Res. Lab, Haifa
Abstract :
In this work we extend the aforementioned supermarket model by incorporating the management costs into it. In particular, we assume that when a server is polled about its load, it has to allocate resources in order to answer this query. We consider a system that consists of n identical servers. Each server processes its incoming service requests according to the FIFO
Keywords :
resource allocation; adaptive load sharing; aforementioned supermarket model; management costs; resource allocation; server processes; service requests; Availability; Computer science; Condition monitoring; Costs; Equations; Load management; Load modeling; Network servers; Resource management; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomic Computing, 2007. ICAC '07. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jacksonville, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2779-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2779-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICAC.2007.41
