Jingle-Mingle: A Hybrid Reliable Load Balancing Approach for a Trusted Distributed Environment

Load balancing in distributed computing environment enhances the availability and scalability of entire system. The computational paradigm has shifted dramatically from standalone computing, C/S computing, distributed computing to cluster computing paradigm. Although numerous works has been done on the issue of process migration and load balancing, a comprehensive approach still misses out on various fronts. This paper presents a reliable and comprehensive load balancing approach using Jingle-Mingle Model for a trusted small scale distributed computing environment. A Process Migration Server (PMS) that also acts as future cluster management server ensures that latency time in migrated process execution is reduced along with no starvation policy for any process. Our proposed scheme that is based on hybrid scheduling algorithm maintains history of events in order to reconfigure the systems. This paper also proposes an effective scheme to recover from single point crash or failures. Hence, the distributed computing system is able to distribute the load among various nodes evenly without any overhead. This in turn increases the reliability of overall system.