Improved strategies for dynamic load balancing
- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Concurrency
- Vol. 7 (3) , 58-67
- https://doi.org/10.1109/4434.788780
Abstract
The authors propose two strategies: One takes network delay into account to avoid errors in scheduling jobs; the other also delays job execution when the system is fully used. These strategies are general and can augment existing algorithmsKeywords
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