Contract-based load management in federated distributed systems
Magdalena Bałazińska, Hari Balakrishnan, Mike Stonebraker · 2004
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bilateral contracts that are negotiated offline and that set bounded prices for moving load. We show that our mechanism has good incentive properties, efficiently redistributes excess load, and has a low overhead in practice.