Performance and reliability of non-markovian heterogeneous distributed computing systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1288-1301

  Pezoa, Jorge E ^a,b   Hayat, Majeed M ^c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed computing; distributed queuing theory; load balancing; non Markovian processes; reliability; Renewal theory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; ARRIVAL TIME; AVERAGE SERVICE TIME; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED QUEUING; DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; LOAD TRANSFER; MARKOVIAN; MONTE CARLO; NON-MARKOVIAN; NON-MARKOVIAN PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL DYNAMICS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RENEWAL THEORY; SERVICE RELIABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING THEORY; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861726834     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.285     Document Type: Article

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