Load Balancing Approaches for Web Servers: A Survey of Recent Trends

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, MP, India

Abstract

Numerous works has been done for load balancing of web servers in grid environment. Reason behinds popularity of grid environment is to allow accessing distributed resources which are located at remote locations. For effective utilization, load must be balanced among all resources. Importance of load balancing is discussed by distinguishing the system between without load balancing and with load balancing. Various performance metrics that need to be considered for designing an efficient load balancing algorithm are also described. Intensive review of literature of different load balancing approaches for web servers have been carried out and presented in this paper. On the basis of literature survey, a new dynamic load balancing mechanism is proposed for optimizing waiting time and cost.

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International Journal of Engineering
Volume 31, Issue 2
TRANSACTIONS B: Applications
February 2018
Pages 263-269

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