diff --git a/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/RebalanceController.java b/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/RebalanceController.java
index 9620311acc..7c781e57c9 100644
--- a/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/RebalanceController.java
+++ b/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/RebalanceController.java
@@ -17,9 +17,15 @@
 package voldemort.client.rebalance;
 
 import java.text.DecimalFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Map.Entry;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -676,6 +682,118 @@ private void executeSubBatch(final int batchId,
         }
     }
 
+    public class Scheduler {
+
+        final private ExecutorService service;
+
+        private Map<Integer, List<StealerBasedRebalanceTask>> tasksByStealer;
+        private int numTasksExecuting;
+        private Set<Integer> nodeIdsWithWork;
+        private CountDownLatch doneSignal;
+
+        Scheduler(ExecutorService service) {
+            this.service = service;
+        }
+
+        public void run(List<StealerBasedRebalanceTask> sbTaskList) {
+            // Setup for this run.
+            this.tasksByStealer = new HashMap<Integer, List<StealerBasedRebalanceTask>>();
+            for(StealerBasedRebalanceTask task: sbTaskList) {
+                if(task.getStealInfos().size() != 1) {
+                    throw new VoldemortException("StealerBasedRebalanceTasks should have a list of RebalancePartitionsInfo of length 1.");
+                }
+
+                RebalancePartitionsInfo stealInfo = task.getStealInfos().get(0);
+                int stealerId = stealInfo.getStealerId();
+                if(!this.tasksByStealer.containsKey(stealerId)) {
+                    this.tasksByStealer.put(stealerId, new ArrayList<StealerBasedRebalanceTask>());
+                }
+                this.tasksByStealer.get(stealerId).add(task);
+            }
+
+            if(tasksByStealer.isEmpty()) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            this.numTasksExecuting = 0;
+            this.nodeIdsWithWork = new HashSet<Integer>();
+            doneSignal = new CountDownLatch(sbTaskList.size());
+
+            scheduleMoreTasks();
+
+            try {
+                doneSignal.await();
+            } catch(InterruptedException e) {
+                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+
+        private synchronized void scheduleMoreTasks() {
+            RebalanceTask scheduledTask = scheduleNextTask();
+            while(scheduledTask != null) {
+                scheduledTask = scheduleNextTask();
+            }
+        }
+
+        private synchronized StealerBasedRebalanceTask scheduleNextTask() {
+            // Make sure there is work left to do.
+            if(doneSignal.getCount() == 0) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            // Limit number of tasks outstanding.
+            if(this.numTasksExecuting == maxParallelRebalancing) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            // Should probably round-robin among stealerIds. But, its easier to
+            // randomly shuffle list of stealer IDs each time a new task to
+            // schedule needs to be found. In theory, either round-robin'ing or
+            // shuffling will avoid prioritizing one specific stealers work
+            // ahead of all others.
+            List<Integer> stealerIds = new ArrayList<Integer>(tasksByStealer.keySet());
+            Collections.shuffle(stealerIds);
+            for(int stealerId: stealerIds) {
+                if(nodeIdsWithWork.contains(stealerId)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                for(StealerBasedRebalanceTask sbTask: tasksByStealer.get(stealerId)) {
+                    int donorId = sbTask.getStealInfos().get(0).getDonorId();
+                    if(nodeIdsWithWork.contains(donorId)) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+
+                    // Bookkeeping for task about to execute:
+                    nodeIdsWithWork.add(stealerId);
+                    nodeIdsWithWork.add(donorId);
+                    numTasksExecuting++;
+                    // Remove this task from list thus destroying list
+                    // being iterated over. This is safe because returning
+                    // directly out of this branch.
+                    tasksByStealer.get(stealerId).remove(sbTask);
+
+                    service.execute(sbTask);
+                    return sbTask;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        // There should only be one task per stealer-donor and so these ids
+        // uniquely identify a stealer-based rebalancing task.
+        public synchronized void doneTask(int stealerId, int donorId) {
+            nodeIdsWithWork.remove(stealerId);
+            nodeIdsWithWork.remove(donorId);
+            numTasksExecuting--;
+
+            doneSignal.countDown();
+
+            scheduleMoreTasks();
+        }
+    }
+
     private List<RebalanceTask> executeTasks(final int batchId,
                                              RebalanceBatchPlanProgressBar progressBar,
                                              final ExecutorService service,
@@ -684,6 +802,8 @@ private List<RebalanceTask> executeTasks(final int batchId,
         List<RebalanceTask> taskList = Lists.newArrayList();
         int taskId = 0;
         if(stealerBasedRebalancing) {
+            Scheduler scheduler = new Scheduler(service);
+            List<StealerBasedRebalanceTask> sbTaskList = Lists.newArrayList();
             for(RebalancePartitionsInfo partitionsInfo: rebalancePartitionPlanList) {
                 StealerBasedRebalanceTask rebalanceTask = new StealerBasedRebalanceTask(batchId,
                                                                                         taskId,
@@ -691,11 +811,14 @@ private List<RebalanceTask> executeTasks(final int batchId,
                                                                                         maxTriesRebalancing,
                                                                                         donorPermits[partitionsInfo.getDonorId()],
                                                                                         adminClient,
-                                                                                        progressBar);
+                                                                                        progressBar,
+                                                                                        scheduler);
                 taskList.add(rebalanceTask);
-                service.execute(rebalanceTask);
+                sbTaskList.add(rebalanceTask);
+                // service.execute(rebalanceTask);
                 taskId++;
             }
+            scheduler.run(sbTaskList);
         } else {
             // Group by donor nodes
             HashMap<Integer, List<RebalancePartitionsInfo>> donorNodeBasedPartitionsInfo = RebalanceUtils.groupPartitionsInfoByNode(rebalancePartitionPlanList,
diff --git a/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/task/StealerBasedRebalanceTask.java b/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/task/StealerBasedRebalanceTask.java
index 37da1b90a9..e4026ab5d3 100644
--- a/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/task/StealerBasedRebalanceTask.java
+++ b/src/java/voldemort/client/rebalance/task/StealerBasedRebalanceTask.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import voldemort.VoldemortException;
 import voldemort.client.protocol.admin.AdminClient;
 import voldemort.client.rebalance.RebalanceBatchPlanProgressBar;
+import voldemort.client.rebalance.RebalanceController;
 import voldemort.client.rebalance.RebalancePartitionsInfo;
 import voldemort.server.rebalance.AlreadyRebalancingException;
 import voldemort.store.UnreachableStoreException;
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ public class StealerBasedRebalanceTask extends RebalanceTask {
     private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(StealerBasedRebalanceTask.class);
 
     private final int stealerNodeId;
+    private final int donorNodeId;
     // TODO: What is the use of maxTries for stealer-based tasks? Need to
     // validate reason for existence or remove.
     // NOTES FROM VINOTH:
@@ -61,13 +63,16 @@ public class StealerBasedRebalanceTask extends RebalanceTask {
     // done.
     private final int maxTries;
 
+    private final RebalanceController.Scheduler scheduler;
+
     public StealerBasedRebalanceTask(final int batchId,
                                      final int taskId,
                                      final RebalancePartitionsInfo stealInfo,
                                      final int maxTries,
                                      final Semaphore donorPermit,
                                      final AdminClient adminClient,
-                                     final RebalanceBatchPlanProgressBar progressBar) {
+                                     final RebalanceBatchPlanProgressBar progressBar,
+                                     final RebalanceController.Scheduler scheduler) {
         super(batchId,
               taskId,
               Lists.newArrayList(stealInfo),
@@ -78,6 +83,9 @@ public StealerBasedRebalanceTask(final int batchId,
 
         this.maxTries = maxTries;
         this.stealerNodeId = stealInfo.getStealerId();
+        this.donorNodeId = stealInfo.getDonorId();
+
+        this.scheduler = scheduler;
 
         taskLog(toString());
     }
@@ -136,6 +144,7 @@ public void run() {
         } finally {
             donorPermit.release();
             isComplete.set(true);
+            scheduler.doneTask(stealerNodeId, donorNodeId);
         }
     }