Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Abstract— An important issue for supporting multimedia applications in multiple heterogeneous networks, a typical pervasive computing environment, is how to optimize the rate all...
Liang Zhou, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, Baoyu Zheng, ...
Multicast network services advantageously complement multimedia information and communication technologies, as they open up the realm for highly scalable multicustomer application...
In this paper we present a game theoretic approach to solve the static load balancing problem in a distributed system which consists of heterogeneous computers connected by a sing...
Several methods have been proposed in the literature for the distribution of data on distributed memory machines, either oriented to dense or sparse structures. Many of the real a...