A unified modeling framework for distributed resource allocation of general fork and join processing networks
Haiquan Zhao, Cathy Honghui Xia, Zhen Liu, Don Towsley · 2010
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requirements arising from distributed data intensive computing. In such applications, the underlying data processing software consists of a rich set of semantics that include synchronous and asynchronous data fork and data join. The different types of semantics and processing requirements introduce complex interdependence between various data flows within the network.