Low jitter guaranteed-rate communications for cluster computing systems

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-160

  Szymanski, Ted H ^a   Gilbert, Dave ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guaranteed rate; Low jitter; Networks; Quality of service; Scheduling; Stochastic matrix decomposition; Switching

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLUSTER COMPUTING; JITTER; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SWITCHING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLUSTER COMPUTING SYSTEM; GUARANTEED RATE; HIGH-BANDWIDTH NETWORKS; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; LOW JITTERS; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC MATRICES; SUB-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 61449250976     PISSN: 17543916     EISSN: 17543924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2008.020258     Document Type: Article

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