A Distributed Strategy for Resource Allocation

In this paper, we present a decentralized algorithm for determining how resources should be allocated to sites. This algorithm is general in the sense that it can be used for allocating different kinds of resources. This algorithm can be applied either statically, used on a quiescent system, or used dynamically as the system runs. Throughout, we consider only systems in which a resource has a fixed cost associated with it regardless of where it may be located (i.e. the system is homogeneous)