Online scheduling of dynamic task graphs with communication and contention for multiprocessors

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-133

  Choudhury, Pravanjan ^a   Chakrabarti, P P ^b   Kumar, Rajeev ^b  

^a Forest Park ^*  (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

edge scheduling; Multiprocessor scheduling; static and online scheduling; task graphs

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC TASKS; EXECUTION TIME; HOMOGENEOUS PROCESSORS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; MULTIPROCESSOR EMBEDDED SYSTEM; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SCHEDULING; POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION; RUNTIMES; SCHEDULE LENGTH; STATIC AND ONLINE SCHEDULING; STATIC SCHEDULING; TASK GRAPH;

COMMUNICATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 82555196010     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.104     Document Type: Article

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