4 papers
Improved Load Balancing in Large Scale Systems using Attained Service Time Reporting
Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt
Our interest lies in load balancing jobs in large scale systems consisting of multiple dispatchers and FCFS servers. In the absence of any information on job sizes, dispatchers typ…
Mean Waiting Time in Large-Scale and Critically Loaded Power of d Load Balancing Systems
Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt
Mean field models are a popular tool used to analyse load balancing policies. In some cases the waiting time distribution of the mean field limit has an explicit form. In other cas…
Performance Analysis of Load Balancing Policies with Memory
Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt
Joining the shortest or least loaded queue among randomly selected queues are two fundamental load balancing policies. Under both policies the dispatcher does not maintain any…
On the Power-of-d-choices with Least Loaded Server Selection
Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt
Motivated by distributed schedulers that combine the power-of-d-choices with late binding and systems that use replication with cancellation-on-start, we study the performance of t…