• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.93-100
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• 2021

The Ethereum shard system for solving the scalability problem of the blockchain has a load balancing issue, which is modeled as a graph partitioning problem. In this paper, we propose an adaptive online weighted graph partitioning algorithm that can negotiate between two utility of the shard system using the game theory's bargaining solution. The bargaining solution is an axiomatic solution that can fairly determine the points of conflict of utility. The proposed algorithm was improved to apply the existing online graph partitioning algorithm to the weighted graph, and load balancing was performed efficiently through the design considering the situation of the sharding system using the extension of Nash bargaining solution, which is extended to apply solution to non-convex feasible set of bargaining problem. As a result of the experiment, it showed up to 37% better performance than typical load balancing algorithm of shard system.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.53-61
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• 2002

This paper propose an dynamic load balancing algorithm for heterogeneous distributed systems. The algorithm allows this tasks to be relocated. The key of the algorithm is to transfer a suitable amount of processing demand from senders to receivers. This amount is determined dynamically during sender-receiver negotiations. Factors considered when this amount is determined include processing speeds of different nodes, the current load state of both sender and receiver, and the processing demands of tasks eligible for relocation. This paper also propose a load state measurement scheme which is designed particularly for heterogeneous systems. This results of the study show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms and is stable over a range of system attributes.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.176-179
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• 2002

In recent years, an increasing amount of computer network research has focused on the problem of cluster system in order to achieve higher performance and lower cost. The load unbalance is the major defect that reduces performance of a cluster system that uses parallel program in a form of SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data). Also, the load unbalance is a problem of MPP (Massive Parallel Processors), and distributed system. The cluster system is a loosely-coupled distributed system, therefore, it has higher communication overhead than MPP. Dynamic load balancing can solve the load unbalance problem of cluster system and reduce its communication cost. The cluster systems considered in this paper consist of P heterogeneous nodes connected by a switch-based network. The master node can predict the average execution time of tasks for each slave node based on the information from the corresponding slave node. Then, the master node redistributes remaining tasks to each node considering the predicted execution time and the communication overhead for task migration. The proposed dynamic load balancing uses execution time prediction to optimize the task redistribution. The various performance factors such as node number, task number, and communication cost are considered to improve the performance of cluster system. From the simulation results, we verified the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic load balancing algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.249-250
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• 2008

In the field of mobile communications, load balancing between 3GPP LTE and other networks is expected to be an important topic from the perspective of current technical development. The load balancing technique includes the definition of functions and structures needed to incooperate 3G LTE E-Node B and base-stations designed for heterogeneous networks. The major goal attained from this paper is to ensure an algorithm for the mechanism of load balancing and to achieve a technical leading for the next generation mobile network.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.11C
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• pp.1040-1045
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• 2002

This paper focuses on a hash-based, distributed Wet caching network that eliminates inter-cache communication. An agent program on cache servers, a mapping program on the DNS server, and other components comprised in a distributed Web caching network were modified and developed to implement a so-called "consistent" hashing. Also, a dynamic load balancing algorithm is proposed to address the load-balancing problem that is a key performance issue on distributed architectures. This algorithm effectively balances the load among cache servers by distributing the calculated amount of mapping items that have higher popularity than others. Therefore, this developed network can resolve the imbalanced load that is caused by a variable page popularity, a non-uniform distribution of a hash-based mapping, and a variation of cache servers.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.427-437
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• 1994

Optimal static load balancing in star network configurations is considered. Three kinds of load balancing direction strategies are considered. First, a job arriving at the peripheral nodes may be processed either where it arrived(origin node) or transferred directly to central node Second, a job arriving at the central node may be processed there, or transferred to lightly loaded peripheral nodes. A nonlinear optimization problem is formulated. Using the optimal solution, an optimal load balancing algorithm is derived for the second load balancing strategy. Third a job arriving at the central node or a peripheral node may be processed either at origin node or transferred to another lightly loaded node (central or peripheral). A load balancing algorithm is derived for the third load balancing strategy. The effects of these three load balancing strategies are compared by numerical experiments. During the conduct of these in numerical experiments, several interesting phenomena were observed. The third load balancing strategy improved performance more than the first two other strategies. The second load balancing strategy, as a whole, resulted in only slightly improved performance. Finally, of the central node has larger processing power than the peripheral nodes, the first and third load balancing strategies produce equal performance improvement.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.365-378
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• 2013

In Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), we usually deploy multiple Internet Gateways (IGWs) to improve the capacity of WMNs. As most of the traffic is oriented towards the Internet and may not be distributed evenly among different IGWs, some IGWs may suffer from bottleneck problem. To solve the IGW bottleneck problem, we propose an efficient scheme to balance the load among different IGWs within a WMN. Our proposed load-balancing scheme consists of two parts: a traffic load calculation module and a traffic load migration algorithm. The IGW can judge whether the congestion has occurred or will occur by using a linear smoothing forecasting method. When the IGW detects that the congestion has occurred or will occur, it will firstly select another available IGW that has the lightest traffic load as the secondary IGW and then inform some mesh routers (MPs) which have been selected by using the Knapsack Algorithm to change to the secondary IGW. The MPs can return to their primary IGW by using a regression algorithm. Our Qualnet 5.0 experiment results show that our proposed scheme gives up to 18% end-to-end delay improvement compared with the existing schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.651-669
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• 2013

In this paper, we study a novel routing algorithm based on load balancing for multi-channel wireless mesh networks. In order to increase the network capacity and reduce the interference of transmission streams and the communication delay, on the basis of weighted cumulative expected transmission time (WCETT) routing metric this paper proposes an improved routing metric based on load balancing and channel interference (LBI_WCETT), which considers the channel interference, channel diversity, link load and the latency brought by channel switching. Meanwhile, in order to utilize the multi-channel strategy efficiently in wireless mesh networks, a new channel allocation algorithm is proposed. This channel allocation algorithm utilizes the conflict graph model and considers the initial link load estimation and the potential interference of the link to assign a channel for each link in the wireless mesh network. It also utilizes the channel utilization percentage of the virtual link in its interference range as the channel selection standard. Simulation results show that the LBI_WCETT routing metric can help increase the network capacity effectively, reduce the average end to end delay, and improve the network performance.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.4
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• pp.479-488
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• 2001

디지털 오디오나 비디오와 같은 멀티미디어 트래픽 QoS 제약 조건(종단간 지연, 대역폭 가용성, 패킷 분실률, 지터 등)을 요구하고 있다. 이러한 멀티미디어 트래픽의 제약 조건을 보장하기 위해서는 데이터 전송을 하기 전에 실시간 채널을 설정할 필요가 있으며 그러한 채널의 설정은 QoS 제약 조건을 고려한 효율적인 경로 설정 알고리즘을 필요로 한다. 일반적으로 네트워크에서 지연 제약 조건과 최소 비용을 만족하는 경로를 찾는 것은 NP-complete임이 증명되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 간단하고 분산된 루프 프리 라우팅 알고리즘(Loop-free Delay-constrained Routing algorithm with Load balancing : DRL)을 제안한다. 제안한 DRL은 지연 제약 조건을 만족하는 경로를 선택하며 네트워크의 상태에 따라 부하를 분산시키는 기능을 갖고 있다. 또한 지연 제약 라우팅을 위해 각 노드에서는 한정된 네트워크 상태 정보만을 필요로 한다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 DRL이 LDP와 마찬가지로 지연 제약조건을 만족하는 경로를 제공하면서 DCUR에 비해 루프가 발생하지 않는 경로 설정을 수행한다는 것을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.33-39
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• 2015

Power supplying capacity of the distribution feeder should be maintained within thermal capacity of the wire. This paper presents the minimum spanning tree based load balancing technique to release multiple overloading of distribution feeders. In order to minimize number of involved backup feeders, Dijkstra and Prim algorithm are adopted to construct minimum spanning tree. Simulation testing result based on part of KEPCO's commercial distribution systems shows effectiveness of proposed scheme.