Load balancing with network cooperation

A detailed analytical and simulation model that accurately captures the effect of communication delay for local area networks is presented. To demonstrate the framework, load sharing algorithms are presented and evaluated both with and without the effect of the communication network delay. The algorithms use the Ethernet communication protocol to their advantage and provide superior performance compared to several published algorithms. The strong performance results for the new algorithms demonstrate that a load sharing algorithm can cooperate rather than compete with a communication network.<
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