Integration of load balancing in a CORBA environment

Abstract

A framework for the distribution of program objects in heterogeneous computer systems using Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is described. Any load balancing algorithm can be integrated transparently into the existing CORBA infrastructure. The implementation was tested with different load balancing strategies on an algorithm performing an exhaustive search over all possible paths, over all interconnection topologies of n nodes. The goal is to find the topology yielding the minimal sum of average and maximal distances among all pairs of nodes in minimal execution time.