An adaptive load balancing management technique for RFID middleware systems

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 485-506

  Chae, Heung Seok ^a   Park, Jae Geol ^b   Cui, Jian Feng ^a   Lee, Joon Sang ^c  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b SEBANG Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive load balancing; Load balancing strategy; Performance model; RFID middleware

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING; ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING STRATEGIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION POLICY; JOB SELECTION; LOAD BALANCING POLICIES; LOAD BALANCING STRATEGY; LOAD MANAGEMENT; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; RFID MIDDLEWARE;

MIDDLEWARE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 77952963131     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.967     Document Type: Article

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