Taxonomy of contention management in interconnected distributed systems

Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 57-1-57-33

  Salehi, Mohsen Amini ^a   Abawajy, Jemal ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CONTENTION MANAGEMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 85013654297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b16812     Document Type: Chapter

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