A distributed algorithm for the replica placement problem

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1455-1468

  Zaman, Sharrukh ^a   Grosu, Daniel ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

approximation algorithm; distributed algorithm; distributed replication group; Replication

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TIME; CONTENT REPLICATION; DATA OBJECTS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED REPLICATION GROUP; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; OBJECT REPLICATION; REPLICA ALLOCATION; REPLICA PLACEMENT PROBLEMS; REPLICATION; SERVER CAPACITY; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79960834878     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.27     Document Type: Article

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