Exploiting Process Lifetime Distributions for Dynamic Load Balancing

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-285

  Harchol Balter, Mor ^a   Downey, Allen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Heavy tailed; Load balancing; Load sharing; Measurement; Migration; Network of workstations; Pareto distribution; Performance; Remote execution; Trace driven simulation; Workload modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORATORS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031199613     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/263326.263344     Document Type: Article

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