Flexible and extensible load balancing

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1283-1306

  Hui, Chi Chung ^a   Chanson, Samuel T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Load balancing; Load sharing; Parallel and distributed computing; Processor scheduling algorithms; Workstation clusters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SERVER SYSTEM CALLS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031275756     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199711)27:11<1283::AID-SPE132>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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