Distributed load balancing
Rene K. Boel, Jan H. van Schuppen · 2003
Summary form only given. The authors solve a load balancing problem for parallel processors, given limited state information. The novelty of the problem is that the routing units at the parallel arrival streams of tasks have different and limited state information. This makes the problem a team problem of a distributed control problem. The engineering model for this problem consists of arrival streams of tasks, routing units and processors. The control problem is to synthesize an algorithm for the routing units. Both open-loop and closed-loop routing algorithms are considered. A performance analysis has been carried out for the case of two processors.>