Randomized load balancing with non-uniform task lengths

45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 542-549

  Cogill, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

EXPECTED MAKESPAN; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MINIMIZING MAKESPAN; MULTIPROCESSOR SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; PROBLEM INSTANCES; RANDOM ASSIGNMENT; RANDOMIZED LOAD BALANCING; SCHEDULING POLICIES;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84940647108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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