Distributed Scheduling of Tasks with Deadlines and Resource Requirements

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1989, Pages 1110-1123

  Ramamritham, Krithi ^a   Stankovic, John A ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deadlines; distributed scheduling; real time systems; resource constraints; simulation studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SCHEDULING;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; BIDDING; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; FOCUSED ADDRESSING; GLOBAL SCHEDULING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0024716426     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.30866     Document Type: Article

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