Comparative studies of load balancing with control and optimization techniques

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1484-1490

  Diao, Yixin ^a   Wu, Chai Wah ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a   Storm, Adam J ^b   Surendra, Maheswaran ^a   Lightstone, Sam ^b   Parekh, Sujay ^a   Garcia Arellano, Christian ^b   Carroll, Matthew ^b   Chu, Lee ^b   Colaco, Jerome ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DEMANDS; LOAD BALANCING; MEMORY POOL; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 23944449102     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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