Resource-constrained load balancing controller for a parallel database

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 834-840

  Tang, Zhong ^a,b   Birdwell, J D ^a   Chiasson, John ^c   Abdallah, Chaouki T ^d   Hayat, M ^d  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b Beckman Coulter Inc   (United States)

^c Boise State University   (United States)

^d University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Distributed database; Load balancing; Parallel computing; Time delay

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; INTERNET; LOADS (FORCES); MODAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SEARCH ENGINES; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; COMPUTER NODES; DATABASE SEARCHES; DNA PROFILING; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; LOAD BALANCING; LOCAL WORK; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NETWORK TRAFFICS; PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS; PARALLEL COMPUTERS; PARALLEL DATABASES; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; SEARCH OPERATIONS; SIMULATION MODELLING; TIME-VARYING; WORK LOADS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 46849084114     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2007.916305     Document Type: Article

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