Cooperative load balancing in distributed systems

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1953-1976

  Grosu, D ^a   Chronopoulos, A T ^b   Leung, M Y ^c  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative game; Distributed systems; Game theory; Nash bargaining solution; Static load balancing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY;

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; COOPERATIVE GAME; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTERS; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; NASH BARGAINING SOLUTION; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; STATIC LOAD BALANCING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 55349143526     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1331     Document Type: Article

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