Suboptimal solutions using integer approximation techniques for scheduling divisible loads on distributed bus networks

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 680-691

  Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^a,b   Viswanadham, N ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; DIRECTED FLOW GRAPH; DISTRIBUTED BUS NETWORKS; DIVISIBLE LOADS; GRANULARITY; INTEGER APPROXIMATION; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034313454     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.895891     Document Type: Article

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