Compaction of schedules and a two-stage approach for duplication-based DAG scheduling

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 857-871

  Bozdaǧ, Doruk ^a   Özgüner, Füsun ^a   Catalyurek, Umit V ^a,b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Multiprocessor systems; Scheduling and task partitioning; Task duplication

Indexed keywords

DAG SCHEDULING; GENERIC ALGORITHM; HIGH QUALITY; LOW COMPLEXITY; LOWER COMPLEXITY; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS; SCHEDULE LENGTH; SCHEDULING AND TASK PARTITIONING; TASK DUPLICATION; TIME COMPLEXITY; TWO STAGE;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67349261356     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.260     Document Type: Article

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