File assignment in parallel I/O systems with minimal variance of service time

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-140

  Lee, Lin Wen ^b   Scheuermann, Peter ^a,c   Vingralek, Radek ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b 1715 RFD   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d Intertrust Technologies Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; HEURISTIC METHODS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033878669     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.833109     Document Type: Article

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