A New Technique for Dynamic Load Balancing

Suryakant Patil, Pratap Singh

Abstract: Mission-critical applications must run 24x7, and networks need to be able to scale performance to handle large numbers of client requests without unwanted delays. A server cluster is a group of independent servers managed as a single system for achieving availability and scalability. It consists of two or more servers connected by a network, and cluster management software. The software provides services such as failure detection, recovery, load balancing, and manages the servers as a single system. Load balancing is a technique that allows the performance of a server-based program, such as a Web server, to be scaled by distributing its client requests across multiple servers within a cluster of computers. Load balancing is used to enhance scalability, which improves throughput while keeping response times low. In this paper we have proposed a dynamic load balancing system in which servers in distributed system uses multicasting to communicate with each other and uses decentralized approach for load balancing

Keywords: Load balancing, Static Algorithms, Dynamic Algorithms, Machine Load, Fastest machine, Metrics for load measurement