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An adaptive load balancing scheme for web servers
Author(s) -
Aweya James,
Ouellette Michel,
Montuno Delfin Y.,
Doray Bernard,
Felske Kent
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.421
Subject(s) - computer science , server , round robin dns , web server , scheme (mathematics) , load balancing (electrical power) , computer network , client–server model , process (computing) , control (management) , distributed computing , world wide web , operating system , the internet , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , geometry , mathematics , domain name system , grid
This paper describes an overload control scheme for web servers which integrates admission control and load balancing. The admission control mechanism adaptively determines the client request acceptance rate to meet the web servers' performance requirements while the load balancing or client request distribution mechanism determines the fraction of requests to be assigned to each web server. The scheme requires no prior knowledge of the relative speeds of the web servers, nor the work required to process each incoming request. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.