The Foreground-Background queue: A survey

  • Authors:
  • Misja Nuyens;Adam Wierman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Computer systems researchers have begun to apply the Foreground-Background (FB) scheduling discipline to a variety of applications, and as a result, there has been a resurgence in theoretical research studying FB. In this paper, we bring together results from both of these research streams to provide a survey of state-of-the-art theoretical results characterizing the performance of FB. Our emphasis throughout is on the impact of these results on computer systems.