Systems with multiple servers under heav
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Konstantinos Psounis; Pablo Molinero-FernΓ‘ndez; Balaji Prabhakar; Fragkiskos Pap
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The heavy-tailed nature of Internet flow sizes, web pages and computer files can cause non-preemptive scheduling policies to have a large average response time. Since there are numerous communication and distributed processing systems where preempting jobs can be quite expensive, reducing response t