Design and performance evaluation of queue-and-rate-adjustment dynamic load balancing policies for distributed networks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1410-1422

  Zeng, Zeng ^a   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cluster or distributed computer system; Dynamic load balancing; Mean response time; Queuing theory; Status exchange interval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATED LOAD INFORMATION SCHEDULING ALGORITHM (ELISA); MEAN RESPONSE TIME; QUEUE ADJUSTMENT POLICY (QAP); QUEUE AND RATE ADJUSTMENT POLICY (QRAP); STATUS EXCHANGE INTERVAL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750110003     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2006.180     Document Type: Article

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