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A fundamental problem in distributed computing is the distribution of requests to a set of uniform servers without a centralized controller. Classically, such problems are modeled as static balls into bins processes, where m balls (tasks) are to be distributed among n bins (servers). In a seminal work, Azar et al. (SIAM J Comput 29(1):180–200, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1137/S0097539795288490) proposed...
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