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The Computer Journal 1994 37(9):779-794; doi:10.1093/comjnl/37.9.779
© 1994 by British Computer Society
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An All-sharing Load-balancing Scheme on the CSMA/CD Network and Its Analysis*

Y. Hao1 §, J.-C. S. Liu2 ¶ and J. L. Kim3 {ddagger}

1 Global Finance Architecture and Emerging Technology, Citicorp, 4 Campus Circle, Westlake, TX 76262, USA, 2 Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA, 3 Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

This paper analyzes a load-balancing scheme, called All-Sharing Load Balancing (ASLB), which evenly distributes the load of the system among all nodes on a CSMA/CD local area network in a collision-free manner for each load-balancing activity. A novel analytical model is presented to evaluate performance of the ASLB scheme and its effect on the normal communication message transmission and vice versa. The evaluation also takes into account the tradeoff between system response time and message delay. Our analysis shows that ASLB can achieve good performance in both system response time and message transmission delay. Our analysis techniques are applicable to various distributed algorithms involved with interprocess coordination.

Received October 15 1993. revised September 14 1994.

* This work is done when the authors were with the Texas A&M University.

§ Global Finance Architecture and Emerging Technology, Citicorp, 4 Campus Circle, Westlake, TX 76262, USA

Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA

{ddagger} Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA


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