Sensitivity evaluation of dynamic load sharing in distributed systems

IEEE Concurrency

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 62-72

  Dandamudi, Sivarama P ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ctr Parallel and Distributed Comp   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f IEEE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DYNAMIC LOAD SHARING; FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVED NODE SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032116477     PISSN: 10923063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4434.708257     Document Type: Article

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