Network load monitoring in distributed systems

Abstract. Monitoring the performance of a network by which a real-time distributed system is connected is very important. If the system is adaptive or dynamic, the resource manager can use this information to create or use new processes. We may be interested to determine how much load a host is placing on the network, or what the network load index is. In this paper, a simple technique for evaluating the current load of network is proposed. If a computer is connected to several networks, then we can get the load index of that host for each network. We can also measure the load index of the network applied by all the hosts. The dynamic resource manager of DeSiDeRaTa should use this technique to achieve its requirements. We have verified the technique with two benchmarks – LoadSim and DynBench.