A stochastic load balancing algorithm for i-Computing

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-78

  Wong, Yuk Yin ^a   Leung, Kwong Sak ^b   Lee, Kin Hong ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Internet computing; Java computing; Stochastic load balancing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERNET COMPUTING;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0037243364     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.708     Document Type: Article

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