Evaluating Load Balancing Performance in Distributed Storage with Redundancy

To facilitate load balancing, distributed systems store data redundantly. We evaluate the load balancing performance of storage schemes in which each object is stored at $d$ different nodes, and each node stores the same number of objects. In our model, the load offered for the objects is sampled uniformly at random from all the load vectors with a fixed cumulative value. We find that the load b...