A dynamic approach for load balancing

  • Authors:
  • Dominique Barth;Olivier Bournez;Octave Boussaton;Johanne Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Versailles, Versailles, France;Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France;LORIA, Villers-Lès-Nancy, France;Université de Versailles, Versailles, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We study how to reach a Nash equilibrium in a load balancing scenario where each task is managed by a selfish agent and attempts to migrate to a machine which will minimize its cost. The cost of a machine is a function of the load on it. The load on a machine is the sum of the weights of the jobs running on it. We prove that Nash equilibria can be learned on that games with incomplete information, using some Lyapunov techniques.