Optimal stochastic scheduling in multiclass parallel queues

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-102

  Sethuraman, Jay ^a   Squillante, Mark S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

MULTICLASS PARALLEL QUEUES; OPTIMAL STOCHASTIC SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032666393     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/301464.301483     Document Type: Article

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