Provably efficient online nonclairvoyant adaptive scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1263-1279

  He, Yuxiong ^a   Hsu, Wen Jing ^b,c   Leiserson, Eharles E ^d  

^a Sun Microsystems Research Laboratories   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive analysis; Makespan; Mean response time; Online nonclairvoyant scheduling; Parallel processors; Request allotment protocol; Two level scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAPS; MULTIPROGRAMMING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING; CENTRALIZED SCHEDULING; COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS; FAIR ALLOCATION; JOB SCHEDULER; MAKESPAN; MEAN RESPONSE TIME; MULTI-PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; ONLINE NONCLAIRVOYANT SCHEDULING; PARALLEL PROCESSORS; RELEASE TIME; REQUEST ALLOTMENT PROTOCOL; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING OVERHEAD; SCHEDULING SCHEMES; TWO-LEVEL SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 49349106444     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.39     Document Type: Article

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