Research Article
Method using Modified Chord Algorithm to Balance Pool Element Ownership among Registrars in a Reliable Server Pooling Architecture
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382489, author={C.S. Chandrashekaran and Walter L. Johnson and Abhijit Lele}, title={Method using Modified Chord Algorithm to Balance Pool Element Ownership among Registrars in a Reliable Server Pooling Architecture}, proceedings={1st Intenational IEEE Workshop on Information Assurance Middleware for Communications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={IAMCOMM}, year={2007}, month={7}, keywords={Collaboration Computer architecture Degradation Fault tolerance Internet Peer to peer computing Redundancy Reliability engineering Transport protocols Web server}, doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382489} }- C.S. Chandrashekaran
Walter L. Johnson
Abhijit Lele
Year: 2007
Method using Modified Chord Algorithm to Balance Pool Element Ownership among Registrars in a Reliable Server Pooling Architecture
IAMCOMM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382489
Abstract
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) reliable server pooling (RSerPool) group provides a protocol framework that supports server redundancy and session failover providing fault tolerance. The RSerPool protocol framework allows a pool of redundant information sources to be viewed as a single transport end point and is thereby able to provide persistent connections for end users. A performance evaluation of the RSerPool protocols show that early arriving registrars are disproportionately loaded as compared to late arriving registrars. This results in an unbalanced load across registrars and leads to performance degradation of the overall reliable server pooling system. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on the chord algorithm for balancing the load across all registrars. A performance evaluation is carried out to showcase the effectiveness of the algorithm.