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2020, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING, Pages -

Power of random choices made efficient for fog computing (01a Articolo in rivista)

Beraldi R., Proietti Mattia G.

In this paper, we consider a load balancing protocol based on the power of random choices that is adapted to a fog deploy in which several independent fog nodes equipped with a set of servers or VM are serving the same geographical area. The protocol is based on a simple but effective mechanism based on a threshold of $T$. When a fog node receives a unit of computation or a job, it immediately executes the job if the number of its occupied servers is lower than $T$, otherwise the node executes a randomized algorithm by probing $F$ other fog nodes in the area, and delegates the execution of the job to the least loaded one, provided the workload is lower than the probing node. Through a mathematical analysis we show that probing just one node ($F = 1$) when there are less than two VM free provides the same performance of the well known power-of-two random choices centralized algorithm, but at a much lower delay and control overhead costs. Also, simulations are used to address the node heterogeneity and, with a real testbed, we offer results that prove the effective benefit of the proposed solution in practical applications.
Gruppo di ricerca: Distributed Systems
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