A novel security-driven scheduling algorithm for precedence-constrained tasks in heterogeneous distributed systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1017-1029

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

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graphs; heterogeneous distributed systems; precedence constrained tasks.; scheduling algorithm; security overheads; security driven

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; PRECEDENCE-CONSTRAINED TASKS.; SECURITY OVERHEADS; SECURITY-DRIVEN;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GRAPH THEORY; NETWORK SECURITY;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79958031324     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2010.117     Document Type: Article

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