An approximate analysis of the Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) policy

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-307

  Lin, Hwa Chun ^a   Raghavendra, C S ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical approximation; Join the shortest queue; Load balancing; Multiprocessor systems; Parallel queues; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHANNEL CAPACITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY;

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; JOIN THE SHORTEST QUEUE; LOAD BALANCING; PARALLEL QUEUES;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030110030     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.491583     Document Type: Article

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