Circle of interacting servers: Spontaneous collective behavior in the case of large fluctuations

  • Authors:
  • N. D. Vvedenskaya;E. A. Pechersky

  • Affiliations:
  • Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS, Moscow, Russia;Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS, Moscow, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Problems of Information Transmission
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We consider large fluctuations and overload of servers in a network with dynamic routing of messages. The servers form a circle. The number of input flows is equal to the number of servers; the messages of a flow are distributed between two neighboring servers; upon its arrival, a message is directed to the least loaded of these servers. Under the condition that at least two servers are overloaded, the number of overloaded servers in such a network depends on the rate of input flows. In particular, there exists a critical level of the input rate above which all servers are most probably overloaded.