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In this paper, we exploit results obtained in an earlier study for the Laplace transform of the sojourn time $\Omega$ of an entire batch in the $M^{[X]}/M/1$ Processor Sharing (PS) queue in order to derive the asymptotic behavior of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Fabrice Guillemin , Alain Simonian , Ridha Nasri , Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez

Fork-Join (FJ) queueing models capture the dynamics of system parallelization under synchronization constraints, for example, for applications such as MapReduce, multipath transmission and RAID systems. Arriving jobs are first split into…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh , Amr Rizk , Alexander Frömmgen , Heinz Koeppl

Considering two-hop cooperative communication with buffered half-duplex relays, this work jointly optimizes relay selection and transmit power at the relay to maximize the sum-throughput of the network subject to a minimum throughput…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 F. A. Khan , Z. A. Malik , A. A. Nasir , M. Masood

This paper addresses the problem of robust clock phase offset estimation for the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol (PTP) in the presence of delay attacks. Delay attacks are one of the most effective cyber attacks in PTP, as they cannot be…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Anantha K. Karthik , Rick S. Blum

We study computational and statistical aspects of learning Latent Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs). In this model, the learner interacts with an MDP drawn at the beginning of each epoch from an unknown mixture of MDPs. To sidestep known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Fan Chen , Constantinos Daskalakis , Noah Golowich , Alexander Rakhlin

A well-known stochastic model for intermittent fluctuations in physical systems is investigated. The model is given by a super-position of uncorrelated exponential pulses, and the degree of pulse overlap is interpreted as an intermittency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Audun Theodorsen , Odd Erik Garcia

This paper studies the effect of an overdispersed arrival process on the performance of an infinite-server system. In our setup, a random environment is modeled by drawing an arrival rate $\Lambda$ from a given distribution every $\Delta$…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Mariska Heemskerk , Johan van Leeuwaarden , Michel Mandjes

We study online configuration selection with admission control problem, which arises in LLM serving, GPU scheduling, and revenue management. In a planning horizon with $T$ periods, we consider a two-layer framework for the decisions made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Owen Shen , Haoran Xu , Yinyu Ye , Peter Glynn , Patrick Jaillet

Temporal network link prediction is an important task in the field of network science, and has a wide range of applications in practical scenarios. Revealing the evolutionary mechanism of the network is essential for link prediction, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruizhi Zhang , Qiaozi Wang , Qiming Yang , Wei Wei

We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexander Lindermayr , Guido Schäfer , Jens Schlöter , Leen Stougie

We consider TSP with time windows and service time. In this problem we receive a sequence of requests for a service at nodes in a metric space and a time window for each request. The goal of the online algorithm is to maximize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Yossi Azar , Adi Vardi

For a single server system, Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) is an optimal size-based policy. In this paper, we discuss scheduling a single-server system when exact information about the jobs' processing times is not available.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Maryam Akbari-Moghaddam , Douglas G. Down

LLMs are increasingly executed in edge where limited GPU memory and heterogeneous computation jointly constrain deployment which motivates model partitioning and request scheduling. In this setting, minimizing latency requires addressing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mulei Ma , Xinyi Xu , Minrui Xu , Zihan Chen , Yang Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper considers a heterogeneous ad hoc network with multiple transmitter-receiver pairs, in which all transmitters are capable of harvesting renewable energy from the environment and compete for one shared channel by random access. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Hang Li , Chuan Huang , Ping Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Junshan Zhang

We study the problem of assigning operations in a dataflow graph to devices to minimize execution time in a work-conserving system, with emphasis on complex machine learning workloads. Prior learning-based methods often struggle due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Xinyu Yao , Daniel Bourgeois , Abhinav Jain , Yuxin Tang , Jiawen Yao , Zhimin Ding , Arlei Silva , Chris Jermaine

Distributed opportunistic scheduling is studied for wireless ad-hoc networks, where many links contend for one channel using random access. In such networks, distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) involves a process of joint channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dong Zheng , Man-On Pun , Weiyan Ge , Junshan Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Consider a single server system serving a multiclass population. Some popular scheduling policies for such system are the discriminatory processor sharing (DPS), discriminatory random order service (DROS), generalized processor sharing…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Tejas Bodas

A two-hop wireless communication link in which a source sends data to a destination with the aid of an intermediate relay node is studied. It is assumed that there is no direct link between the source and the destination, and the relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

We study a bi-level online provisioning and scheduling problem motivated by network resource allocation, where provisioning decisions are made at a slow time scale while queue-/state-dependent scheduling is performed at a fast time scale.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jialei Liu , C. Emre Koksal , Ming Shi

Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level…

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