Comprehensive Review on Divisible Load Theory: Concepts, Strategies, and Approaches

Table 1

A brief list of studied topics in the area of divisible load theory.

Topics	Developer(s)	References
The DLT originated	Cheng, Agrawal	[1, 2]
Closed form for bus and tree	Robertazzi, Sameer, Hsiung	[6, 7]
Optimal condition for the DLT	Sohn, Robertazzi	[3]
Linear programming model for the DLT	Hillier, Robertazzi	[112, 131]
Multi-installment processing of the DLT	Veeravalli, Ghose, mani	[13]
The DLT with finite-size buffers	Veeravalli, Li, Ko	[32]
The DLT with memory limitation	Drozdowski, Berlinska	[33, 35, 64]
The DLT applied for grid computing	Moges, Yu, Robertazzi	[70, 75]
The adaptive DLT	Ghose, Kim, Kim	[55, 119]
Cheat processors in the DLT	Carroll, Grosu	[62, 63]
The DLT with nonlinear cost	Tsun, Suresh, Kim, Robertazzi	[53, 71]
The DLT and Markov chain models	Moges, Robertazzi	[51, 118]
Multi-source/Multi-site	Moges, Veeravalli, Li, Min, Yu, Robertazzi	[52, 67]; [114, 115]
The real time DLT	Lin, Mamat, Lu	[58, 61, 108]
Time varying in the DLT	Sohn, Robertazzi	[16, 19]
Multi-criteria divisible load	Ghanbari, Othman	[77]
Complexity problem concerning the DLT	Yang, Casanova, Drozdowski, Berlinska	[64, 76]