On the design of adaptive and decentralized load-balancing algorithms with load estimation for computational grid environments

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1675-1686

  Shah, Ruchir ^a   Veeravalli, Bhardwaj ^b   Misra, Manoj ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Average response time; Communication delays; Grid systems; Load balancing; Migration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFER RATES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME; COMMUNICATION DELAYS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 36348954989     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.1115     Document Type: Article

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