Reliability-aware scheduling strategy for heterogeneous distributed computing systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 941-952

  Tang, Xiaoyong ^a   Li, Kenli ^a   Li, Renfa ^a   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Duplication; Heterogeneous distributed systems; Precedence constrained tasks; Reliability; Scheduling algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PATH; COMPARISON STUDY; COMPUTING PLATFORM; CONSTRAINED TASKS; DATA-COMMUNICATION; DEPENDENT TASKS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DRIVEN SCHEDULING; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; LENGTH RATIO; LOWER COST; MAKESPAN; OPTIMAL RELIABILITY; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINED TASKS; REAL APPLICATIONS; RUNNING APPLICATIONS; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; SINGLE MACHINES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RELIABILITY;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77955509553     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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