计算机学院学术论坛报告

主题报告：Heat Diffusion Based Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Virtual Environments
        基于热扩散的虚拟分布环境下的动态负载平衡
报 告 人：Rynson Lau [香港城市大学]（特邀自强教授）
报告时间：3月 04日（周五）9: 30～10: 30
报告地点：上海大学延长校区行键楼734
邀 请 人：骆祥峰 副研究员
 

论坛主题：Distributed virtual environments (DVEs) are becoming very popular in recent years, due to their application in online gaming and social networking. One of the main research problems in DVEs is on how to balance the workload when a lot of concurrent users are accessing it. There are a number of load balancing methods proposed to address this problem. However, they either spend too much time on optimizing the partitioning process and become too slow or emphasize on efficiency and the repartitioning process becomes too ineffective. In this talk, I will present a new dynamic load balancing approach for DVEs based on the heat diffusion approach which has been studied in other areas and proved to be very effective and efficient for dynamic load balancing. Our results show that the new approach is both efficient and effective compared with some existing methods.

报告人简介： Rynson Lau received a first-class B.Sc. honors degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 1988 from the University of Kent, UK, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently a Professor at the University of Durham, UK. Prior to the current appointment, he taught at the City University of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2005 and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 1993 to 1998. From 1992 to 1993, he held a research position at the University of York, UK.