Tse, Savio S.H.2016-02-082016-02-082008-10http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26761Conference name: IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing NPC 2008: Network and Parallel ComputingDate of Conference: 18-20 October, 2008We study the online bicriteria load balancing problem in this paper. We choose a system of distributed homogeneous file servers located in a cluster as the scenario and propose two online approximate algorithms for balancing their loads and required storage spaces. We first revisit the best existing solution for document placement, and rewrite it in our first algorithm by imposing some flexibilities. The second algorithm bounds the load and storage space of each server by less than three times of their trivial lower bounds, respectively; and more importantly, for each server, the value of at least one parameter is far from its worst case. The time complexities for both algorithm are O(logM). © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.EnglishApproximateDistributed file serverDocument placementLoad balancingOnline algorithmControl theoryParallel algorithmsParallel processing systemsSecurity of dataAlgorithmsClustering algorithmsNetwork managementResource allocationSchedulingScheduling algorithmsDistributedLoad balancingServersOn-line algorithmsConference Paper10.1007/978-3-540-88140-7_22