Optimal service task partition and distribution in grid system with star topology

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 152-159

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Dai, Yuan Shun ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid system; Service reliability; Service time; Subtask distribution; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOPOLOGY;

GRID SYSTEM; SERVICE RELIABILITY; SERVICE TIME; SUBTASK DISTRIBUTION; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 34548576865     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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