Design and analysis of a non-preemptive decentralized load balancing algorithm for multi-class jobs in distributed networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 679-693

  Zeng, Zeng ^a   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Communication delays; Distributed systems; Mean response time; Non preemptive scheduling; Routing; Static load balancing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FUNCTIONS; PACKET SWITCHING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; MEAN RESPONSE TIME; NON PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING; ROUTING; STATIC LOAD BALANCING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642315224     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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