| Research Abstract |
Balancing the Workload over a distributed/parallel computer system is one of the most important issues to improve its overall performance (e.g., mean response time). Here the load balancing is a job-scheduling policy which takes a job as a whole and assigns it to a single host computer/processor. Often, jobs in a distributed/parallel computer system can be divided into different classes. For instance, there may be a natural distinction among data, voice, and video packets. We may distinguish different classes of jobs by their delay functions. In the project, we deal with the load balancing problems for such multi-class jobs in a distributed/parallel computer system that consists of heterogeneous host computers/processors (nodes) interconnected by a generally configured communication/interconnection network.
We derive a number of simple and intuitive theoretical results on the solution of the optimization problem. On the basis of these results, we propose an effective load balancing algo
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rithm for balancing the load over an entire distributed/parallel system.
The proposed algorithm has two attractivei features. One is that the algorithm can be implemented in a decentralized fashion. In order to determine the optimal load balancing, each node successively updates its load balancing policy based only on the local information about itself, the traffic through its adjacent links, and the load of its neighboring nodes connected by its adjacent links. Another feature is very simple and straightforward structure.
We compare the performance of our proposed algorithm and other famous algorithms. By using numerical experiments, we show that the proposed algorithm has much faster convergence in terms of computational time than the other algorithms.
Furthermore, we consider the load balancing principle as one of general principles and apply it to study the following relative problems :
(a) Study the performance of parallel On-Line transaction processing (Parallel OLTP) systems. We proposed the efficient scheduling and concurrency control algorithms to improve the performance of parallel OLTP systems.
(b)Study the cell assignment in Personal Communication Service (PCS) networks. We proposed a balanced algoirthm to solve the cell assignment problem in PCS networks.
Besides the performance point of view, we also study the systems from reliability point of view. Specifically, we study the important reliability problems in disk array systems and propose new modeling analytic methods to show the reliability behaviors of the disk array systems in exact way. Less
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