Performance Evaluation of Load Balancing in Hierarchical Architecture for Grid Computing Service Middleware

Abderezak Touzene (1) , Al-Yahai Sultan (1) , Hussien Almuqbali (1) , Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah (2) , Yacine Challal (2)

1 Department of Computer Science [SQU]
2 Heudiasyc - Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes [Compiègne]

In this paper we propose a new architecture for grid computing service which allows grid users with limited resources to do any kind of computation using grid shared hardware and/or software resources. The term limited resouces includes disk or diskless workstrations, Palmtops or any mobile devices. The proposed grid computing service takes into account both hardware and software requierements of the user computing task, along with some quality of service. On other hand our grid system needs to maximize the overall system throughput, minimize the user responce time, and allows a good grid resources utilization. On this aspect we propose an adaptive task allocation and load balancing algorithm to achieve the desired goals. We have developed a simulation model using NS2 to evaluate the performance of our grid system. We have also conducted some experiments on our a test-bed prototype. The performance evaluation measures confirm the good quality of our proposed architecture and load balancing algorithm.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Abderezak Touzene, Al-Yahai Sultan, Hussien Almuqbali, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Yacine Challal. Performance Evaluation of Load Balancing in Hierarchical Architecture for Grid Computing Service Middleware. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, 2011, 8 (2), pp.213-223. ⟨hal-00732987⟩