Efficient techniques for clustering and scheduling onto embedded multiprocessors

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 667-680

  Kianzad, Vida ^a   Bhattacharyya, Shuvra S ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Interprocessor communication; Multiprocessor systems; Scheduling; Task partitioning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MULTITASKING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TASK PARTITIONING;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745715052     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2006.87     Document Type: Article

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