Various Schemes of Load Balancing in Distributed Systems- A Review

Over the past three decade, parallel and distributed computing witnessed major growth due to the declined cost of hardware, advancement in communication technology, explosive growth of internet and need to solve large-scale problems. These systems often face the problem of load imbalance, which can degrade the performance of the system. Load balancing improves the system performance by dividing the work load effectively among the participating computers/nodes. This paper presents various aspects of load balancing and explains various load balancing approaches and strategies and their respective algorithms.