Load Information Management

Abstract

In order to make the appropriate distributed scheduling decisions, it is necessary to have sufficiently accurate load information. It is also possible to perform load distribution without any remote load information, such as in random strategies; however it has been shown that already a small amount of provided information can lead to a dramatical Performance improvement [Eage86]. In the presented LD scheme, this goal is achieved by the load information management module. The load information management module performs the task of load information collection, dissemination, and negotiation on behalf of the underlying distributed scheduling strategy.