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coflow

coflow noun: any of a series of flows that have a common source and destination.

Noun

coflow (plural coflows)

  1. Any of a series of flows that have a common source and destination
    • Furthermore, we give an O(#92;logn#47;#92;log#92;logn)-approximation polynomial time algorithm for scheduling circuit-based coflows where flow paths are not given (here n is the number of network edges). We note that our task-based coflow scheduling problem is equivalent to the fully-flexible order...2016, Hamidreza Jahanjou, Erez Kantor, Rajmohan Rajaraman, “Asymptotically Optimal Approximation Algorithms for Coflow Scheduling”, in arXiv

Forms of coflow

pluralcoflows

Origin of coflow

From co- + flow.

Questions about coflow

What does coflow mean?
Coflow means any of a series of flows that have a common source and destination.
What part of speech is coflow?
Coflow is a noun.
What is the plural of coflow?
The plural of coflow is coflows.

Words near coflow in the dictionary

  1. cofiniteness
  2. cofire
  3. cofired
  4. cofires
  5. cofiring
  6. coflow
  7. coflowering
  8. coflowing
  9. coflows
  10. cofluctuate
  11. cofluctuating

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