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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1999
Swarup Acharya, New Providence, NJ (US);
Shanmugavelayut Muthukrishnan, New York, NY (US);
Ganapathy Sundaram, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment, a method for scheduling the servicing of job requests in a point-to-point communication system having a central server providing job requests to a plurality of local channel servers. In a first step, the method receives a new job request at a central server. A performance of each local channel server is measured, and the job request is dispatched to one of the local channel servers for servicing thereby dependent upon the performance of each of the local channel servers. In one embodiment, the job request is dispatched to the local channel servers having the lowest current average flow time. In another embodiment, the job request is dispatched to the local channel server having the lowest current maximum stretch value, wherein a stretch value is a ratio equal to an amount of time required to service a job request while also serving other uncompleted job requests, divided by an amount of time required to service said job request if no other job requests were required to be serviced.