The proportional-share allocation market for computational resources

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1075-1088

  Feldman, Michal ^a   Lai, Kevin ^b   Zhang, Li ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Proportional share mechanism; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EFFICIENCY AND FAIRNESS; MULTIPLE RESOURCES; MULTIPLE USER; PROPORTIONAL-SHARE; PROPORTIONAL-SHARE MECHANISM; SHARED RESOURCES; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67650655628     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.168     Document Type: Article

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