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Improving traditional task assignment policies

Which job should be assigned to which server?

In this chapter, we consider a fundamental problem of task assignment in a server farm: which job should be assigned to which server? We propose the size-based task assignment policies with cycle stealing, SBCS-ID and SBCS-CQ, and analyze their performance via DR, which we have developed in Chapter 3. Our analysis shows that SBCS-IC and SBCS-CQ can provide an unbounded benefit over traditional task assignment policies with respect to mean response time.



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Takayuki Osogami 2005-07-19