Load Balancing in Optical Grids

This collaboration of geographically distributed domains in multi-domain optical grid environment should be done in a way that maintains the privacy of each participant domain. This calls for a new load balancing hierarchical approach to deal with such environments. In this paper, we propose two load balancing techniques within this hierarchical approach: Network Aware Divisible Load Algorithm (NADLA) and Genetic Algorithm based Load Distribution (GA-LD). Both algorithms are considered as Network Aware. Simulation results show the scalability and feasibility of the proposed approach and the advantages of the two proposed techniques compared to the classical Divisible Load Algorithm (DLA).