A Comparative Study of Adaptive and Hierarchical Load Sharing Policies for Distributed Systems

13th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 1998, CATA 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 136-141

  Dandamudi, Sivarama P ^a   Lo, Michael Kwok Cheong ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC LOADS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CENTRALISED; COMPARATIVES STUDIES; DISTRIBUTED POLICIES; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC LOAD SHARING; LOAD SHARING; PERFORMANCE; RECEIVER-INITIATED; STATE INFORMATION; SYSTEM STATE;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955456650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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