A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
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Load balancing is an important problem for the efficient operation of peer-to-peer(P2P) networks. A key issue for dynamic load balancing in self-organizing networks is to identify overloaded nodes and reassign their loads to oth- ers. Recently, most of researchers have concentrated on de- veloping strategies to the design of balanced structured P2P networks. However, none of these strategies is suitable for unstructured P2P networks. This paper proposes a novel routing based algorithm for load balancing in heteroge- neous, dynamic unstructured P2P networks. Our algorithm does not need the global information and hence is resilient to dynamic node arrivals, departures, and failures. Exper- imental results indicate that our algorithm outperforms ex- isting load balancing algorithms in terms of load transfer.