Most of the existing load balancing strategies were interested in distributed systems which
were supposed to have homogeneous resources interconnected with homogeneous and
fast networks. For Grid computing, these assumptions are not realistic because of
heterogeneity, scalability and dynamicity characteristics. For these environments the load
balancing problem is then a new challenge presently for which many research projects are
under way. In this perspective, our contributions through this paper are two folds. First, we …

Workload information management and resource management are two key aspects in grid
computing to provide the better services to grid environment users. Grid computing also
faced other challenging areas like heterogeneous nature of resources, huge number of
computing elements, independency of computing resources, different processing capacities
of the nodes, different types of load conditions, overloading of jobs at computing nodes,
underutilized of resources, etc. A distributed load balancing algorithm is proposed that can …