On Honey Bees and Dynamic Server Allocation in Internet Hosting Centers  

Oleh:

Nakrani, Sunil ; Tovey, Craig

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Adaptive Behavior vol. 12 no. 3-4 (Dec. 2004), page 223–240.
Topik: internet hosting; server allocation; biomimicry; heuristic; honey bee; foraging; self organization · decentralized algorithm
Fulltext: 223.pdf (444.34KB)

Isi artikel

Internet centers host services for e-banks, e-auctions and other clients. Hosting centers then must allocate servers among clients to maximize revenue. The limited number of servers, costs of reallocating servers, and unpredictability of requests make server allocation optimization difficult. Based on the many similarities between server and honey bee colony forager allocation, we propose a new decentralized honey bee algorithm which dynamically allocates servers to satisfy request loads. We compare it against an omniscient optimality algorithm, a conventional greedy algorithm, and an algorithm that computes omnisciently the optimal static allocation. We evaluate performance on simulated request streams and commercial trace data. Our algorithm performs better than static or greedy for highly variable request loads, but greedy can outperform it under low variability. Honey bee forager allocation, though suboptimal for static food sources, may possess a counterbalancing responsiveness to food source variability.

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