Maximizing reliability of distributed computing system with task allocation using simple genetic algorithm

Abstract

Reliability is one of the very important characteristics of the distributed computing system (DCS), and articles on task allocation (an NP-Hard problem) to maximize the reliability of DCS have appeared in the past [S. Kartik, C.S. Ram Murthy, IEEE Trans. Comput. 46 (6) (1997) 719; S.M. Shatz, Wang, Goto, IEEE Trans. Comput. 41 (90) (1992) 1156]. Genetic Algorithm (GA) has emerged as a successful tool for optimization purposes. We, in this work, have used a simple GA to optimize the reliability of DCS with task allocation. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.