Background Intersectoral action is often presented as essential in the promotion of population health and health equity. In Norway, national public health policies are based on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach that promotes whole-of-government responsibility. As part of the promotion of this intersectoral responsibility, p...

Most current load balancing systems are based on process placement or process migration. We introduce placement of user login sessions as a load balancing approach, and compare it to the process placement and process migration approaches. A load balancing system based on user placement is described, and some experimental results are given. We conclude that user placement has several advantages ...

This paper proposes a novel battery cell balancing topology with reduced component count and simplified control. The balancing algorithm is based on the state of charge (SOC) of each individual cell instead of cell voltage. The principle of the proposed topology is analyzed and verified through simulation and experiments. Then an experimental battery test workbench is established to validate th...

At present, dissimilar wireless access networks including WLAN, UMTS and WiMAX coexist in the mobile computing environment. Resource management, load balancing, reliability and QoS are the most significant research issues on heterogeneous wireless networks. Considering the high speed features of third and fourth generation heterogeneous wireless networks, an efficient semi-distributed load bala...

Load balancing is a crucial problem in mobile ad hoc networks. Many conventional routing protocols that are developed are not having functionality of coping up load balancing. Hence several kinds of approaches are followed in the design and development of load balancing routing protocols. This paper aims to survey research articles pertaining to load balancing research problem in mobile ad hoc ...

Both in High Performance Computing and in Grid computing dynamic load balancing is becoming one of the most important features. In this paper, we present a novel load balancing model based on Lattice Boltzmann Cellular Automata. Using numerical simulations our model is compared to diffusion algorithms adopted on HPC load balancing and to agent-based balancing strategies on Grid systems. We show...

Cloud computing requires more reliable, efficient and scalable load balancing algorithm to survive. As one of the main challenges in cloud computing, load balancing facilitate dynamic workload across multiple nodes ensuring that no single node get overloaded. With proper load balancing, resource consumption is maintained at minimum level, enabling scalability, avoiding bottleneck and overprovis...

For a positive real number w let the Balancing distance ‖w‖B be the distance from w to the closest Balancing number. The Balancing sequence is defined by the initial values B0 = 0, B1 = 1 and by the binary recurrence relation Bn+2 = 6Bn+1 − Bn , n ≥ 0. In this paper, we show that there exist only one positive integer triple (a, b, c) such that the Balancing distances ‖ab‖B , ‖ac‖B and ‖bc‖B all...