A randomized contention-based load-balancing protocol for a distributed multiserver queuing system

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1252-1273

  Kostin, Alexander E ^a,b   Aybay, Isik ^a   Oz, Gurcu ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IEEE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Load balancing; Modeling; Queuing systems; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MULTISERVER QUEUING SYSTEM; ETHERNET; EXTENDED PETRI NETS; LOAD BALANCING PROTOCOL; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MICROSIM; STATE DIAGRAM;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; PETRI NETS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034481949     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.895792     Document Type: Article

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