A policy evaluation tool for multisite resource management

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1352-1366

  Srivatsa, Mudhakar ^a   Rajamani, Nithya ^a   Devarakonda, Murthy ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Modeling and prediction; Performance of systems; Policy impact analysis; Resource sharing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MODELING AND PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; POLICY IMPACT ANALYSIS; RESOURCE SHARING;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 51649118771     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.29     Document Type: Article

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