Pegasus: Competitive Load Balancing Using inetd

As it is proven by practice, load balancing techniques are the only tool that network service provider have, in order to support and handle scalable network load. This paper presents PEGASUS, a novel framework that provides load balancing in network services transparently, using a competitive scheduling algorithm. PEGASUS is designed upon the INETD superserver, thus providing a easy to configure, yet efficient infrastructure. The paper is structured as follows. In section 2 we provide an overview of the current frameworks and popular implementations both open source and commercial. Then we describe our system architecture and the basic axioms that it is designed. The paper concludes with a comparison of PEGASUS with other popular load balancing frameworks.