The Influence of Different Workload Descriptions on a Heuristic Load Balancing Scheme
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Methodical Analysis of Adaptive Load Sharing Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Load Balancing for a Distributed CORBA-Based SCP
IS&N '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Telecommunications and IT Convergence Towards Service E-volution
Tina: Its achievements and its future directions
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Service architectures are necessary for providing value-added services in telecommunications networks, including those in medical institutions. Separation of service logic and control from the actual call switching is the main idea of these service architectures, examples include Intelligent Network (IN), Telecommunications Information Network Architectures (TINA), and Open Service Access (OSA). In the Distributed Service Architectures (DSA), instances of the same object type can be placed on different physical nodes. Hence, the network performance can be enhanced by introducing load balancing algorithms to efficiently distribute the traffic between object instances, such that the overall throughput and network performance can be optimised. In this paper, we propose a new load balancing algorithm called "Node Status Algorithm" for DSA infrastructure applicable to electronic-based medical institutions. The simulation results illustrate that this proposed algorithm is able to outperform the benchmark load balancing algorithms--Random Algorithm and Shortest Queue Algorithm, especially under medium and heavily loaded network conditions, which are typical of the increasing bandwidth utilization and processing requirements at paperless hospitals and in the telemedicine environment.