A S M Ashraful Alam

Work place: Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

E-mail: aalam@cs.otago.ac.nz

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Research Interests: Information Security, Network Security, Information Systems, Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security

Biography

A S M Ashraful Alam is a postgraduate research student in Department of Computer Science in University of Otago, New Zealand. He received an EMBA in Finance from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013 and BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from MIST, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2011. Prior to beginning research in Otago, he worked in Machine Readable Passports and Visa project in Department of Immigration and Passports in Bangladesh. His research interests include tiny system security, information theory, systems integration, ICT innovation, complex system modelling, cross-disciplinary research on technical education.

Author Articles
Evaluation of Load Balancing Performance of Parallel Processing Linear Time-Delay Systems

By Sohag Kabir A S M Ashraful Alam Tanzima Azad

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2015.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 May 2015

Time delays in system states or control may result into unacceptable system operation or uncertainty in specialised technical systems like aircraft control, plant control, robotics etc. The issue of robustness, controllability, traceability, flexible management, reliability, and safety of such systems with time-delays, has been one of the primary research focuses of the last few decades. In parallel computing, different computing subunits share their tasks to balance loads to increase performance and throughput. In order to do so, subsystems have to communicate among themselves, adding further delay on top of existing system delay. It is possible to maintain performance and stability of the whole system, by designing observer for every subsystem in the system, overseeing the system state and compensating for existing time-delay. This paper reviews present literature to identify a linear time-delay system for load balancing and evaluates the stability and load balancing performance of the system with and without an observer. Stability is analysed in terms of oscillation in the system responses and performance is evaluated as the speed of load-balancing operation.

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