Noncooperative load balancing in distributed systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1022-1034

  Grosu, Daniel ^a   Chronopoulos, Anthony T ^b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b One UTSA Circle   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Game theory; Nash equilibrium; Noncooperative games; Performance evaluation; Static load balancing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; THEOREM PROVING;

NASH EQUILIBRIUM; NONCOOPERATIVE GAMES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STATIC LOAD BALANCING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 23744437027     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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