A Survey of Task Allocation and Load Balancing in Distributed Systems

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 585 - 599
• Main Author: Jiang, Yichuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Allocations; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Correlation analysis; Distributed processing; Distributed systems; load balancing; Load balancing (computing); Load management; Load modeling; network; Networks; Optimization; Peer-to-peer computing; Reliability; resource allocation; Resource management; task allocation; Tasks; Taxonomy; Time factors; task allocation; load balancing; resource allocation; Distributed systems; survey; taxonomy; networks

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this subject, each of which only made a very preliminary review on the state of art of one single type of distributed systems....