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The design of an efficient load balancing algorithm employing block design

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In order to maintain load balancing in a distributed system, we should obtain workload information from all the nodes on network. This processing requiresO(v 2) communication overhead, wherev is the number of nodes. In this paper, we present a new synchronous dynamic distributed load balancing algorithm on a (v, k+1, 1)-configured network applying a symmetric balanced incomplete block design, wherev=k 2+k+1. Our algorithm needs only\(O(v\sqrt v )\) communication overhead and each node receives workload information from all the nodes without redundancy. Therefore, load balancing is maintained since every link has the same amount of traffic for transferring workload information.

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    Ilyong Chung & Yongeun Bae

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Ilyong Chung received the B.E. degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from City University of New York, New York, in 1987 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1994, he was a senior technical staff of Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute(ETRI), Daejon, Korea. Since 1994, he has been an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science, Chosun University, Kwangju, Korea. His research interests are in computer networking, security systems and coding theory.

Youngeun Bae received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Chosun University, Kwangju, Korea in 1984 and 1986, respectively and Ph.D. degree from Wonkwang University, Korea in 2002. Since 1987, he has been an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science, Chosun University, Kwangju, Korea. His research interests are in Parallel processing and security systems.

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Chung, I., Bae, Y. The design of an efficient load balancing algorithm employing block design. JAMC 14, 343–351 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936119

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