The Design of a Trader based CORBA Load Sharing Service

In the context of CORBA, standard services for naming, transaction processing, and alike have been defined. However, no standard support is provided to handle load imbalances that may occur in distributed object applications where several object servers are used to provide the same service type. To address this shortcoming, we have designed a CORBA-compliant had sharing service (LSS). Preliminary experiments with LSS show that L^SS allows for the uniform load distribution among servers. Furthermore, we report that load sharing via US S performs better than the approaches based on the random and the round robin server selection methods, in terms of the average response time for client requests.