Performance limits for processor networks with divisible jobs

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1189-1198

  Bataineh, Sameer ^a,b   Robertazzi, Thomas G ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIVISIBLE JOBS; LINEAR DAISY CHAINS; PROCESSOR NETWORKS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031257525     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.625112     Document Type: Article

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