Performance Analysis of Load Balancing Policies with Memory

02/17/2020
by   Tim Hellemans, et al.
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Joining the shortest or least loaded queue among d randomly selected queues are two fundamental load balancing policies. Under both policies the dispatcher does not maintain any information on the queue length or load of the servers. In this paper we analyze the performance of these policies when the dispatcher has some memory available to store the ids of some of the idle servers. We consider methods where the dispatcher discovers idle servers as well as methods where idle servers inform the dispatcher about their state. We focus on large-scale systems and our analysis uses the cavity method. The main insight provided is that the performance measures obtained via the cavity method for a load balancing policy with memory reduce to the performance measures for the same policy without memory provided that the arrival rate is properly scaled. Thus, we can study the performance of load balancers with memory in the same manner as load balancers without memory. In particular this entails closed form solutions for joining the shortest or least loaded queue among d randomly selected queues with memory in case of exponential job sizes. We present simulation results that support our belief that the approximation obtained by the cavity method becomes exact as the number of servers tends to infinity.

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