Improving the performance of independenttask assignment heuristics minmin,maxmin and sufferage

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1244-1256

  Tabak, E Kartal ^a   Cambazoglu, B Barla ^c   Aykanat, Cevdet ^b  

^a Havelsan AS   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

constructive heuristics; heterogeneous systems; independent task assignment; load balancing; MaxMin; MinMin; Parallel processors; Sufferage

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONSTRUCTIVE HEURISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INDEPENDENT TASKS; MAX-MIN; MINMIN; PARALLEL PROCESSOR; SUFFERAGE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84898676669     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.107     Document Type: Article

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