A group planning schedule is usually applied to a task, either by default for the operating system, or because the task is marked for scheduling gangs. All tasks in the task are planned together, not trying to determine whether they all actively communicate.
The following document has an introduction and some quotes that can help you get help with gang planning:
Papazachos, ZC; Karatza, HD ;, βGang Planning Schedule in a Two-Cluster System with Critical Sporadic Jobs and Migration,β βEvaluation of the Performance of Computer and Telecommunication Systems,β 2009. SPECTS 2009. International Symposium, vol.41, no., Pp.41-48 July 13-16, 2009 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5224147&isnumber=5224098
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