| 摘要 |
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for providing decentralized load sharing, e.g., providing a protocol that can be used to address load balancing without the need of a central proxy device. Specifically, in one embodiment, the present invention addresses the decentralized load sharing problem, by allowing a group of servers (130) to detect when more than one server attempts to process the same "work request" from a client (1 10). To address the potential conflict, each server will implement a back-off strategy (320) for negotiating which server will actually process the work request (350).
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