An availability-aware task scheduling strategy for heterogeneous systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-199

  Qin, Xiao ^a   Xie, Tao ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b San Diego State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability constraints; Heterogeneous systems; Hulticlass applications; Resource allocation; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM; TASK SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 38349015030     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.70738     Document Type: Article

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