Worst Case Analysis of Lawler's Algorithm for Scheduling Trees with Communication Delays

  • Authors:
  • F. Guinand;C. Rapine;D. Trystram

  • Affiliations:
  • LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France;LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France;LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper establishes the exact upper bound for Lawler's heuristic proving that its schedule of a UECT tree on m identical processors does not exceed an optimal solution by more than ${m \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {m 2}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} 2}$ time units.