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Passenger waiting time prediction plays a critical role in enhancing both ridesharing user experience and platform efficiency. While most existing research focuses on post-request waiting time prediction with knowing the matched driver…

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Robustly compensating network constraints such as delays and packet dropouts in networked control systems is crucial for remotely controlling dynamical systems. This work proposes a novel prediction consistent method to cope with delays and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Severin Beger , Sandra Hirche

This paper addresses key challenges in task scheduling for multi-tenant distributed systems, including dynamic resource variation, heterogeneous tenant demands, and fairness assurance. An adaptive scheduling method based on reinforcement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang , Xin Wang

On-Demand Ride-Pooling services have the potential to increase traffic efficiency compared to private vehicle trips by decreasing parking space needed and increasing vehicle occupancy due to higher vehicle utilization and shared trips,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Roman Engelhardt , Hani S. Mahmassani , Klaus Bogenberger

Competitive analysis of online algorithms has commonly been applied to understand the behaviour of real-time systems during overload conditions. While competitive analysis provides insight into the behaviour of certain algorithms, it is…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Sathish Gopalakrishnan

We consider maximizing the long-term average reward in a single server queue, where the reward obtained for a job is a non-increasing function of its sojourn time. The motivation behind this work comes from multiple applications, including…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sushmitha Shree S , Avijit Mandal , Avhishek Chatterjee , Krishna Jagannathan

In learning-augmented online algorithms, predictions are usually valued for what they say: a value estimate, a solution, or an algorithmic recommendation. This paper shows that predictions can also be valuable solely due to their arrival…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Franziska Eberle , Alexander Lindermayr

In the scheduling with non-uniform communication delay problem, the input is a set of jobs with precedence constraints. Associated with every precedence constraint between a pair of jobs is a communication delay, the time duration the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sami Davies , Janardhan Kulkarni , Thomas Rothvoss , Sai Sandeep , Jakub Tarnawski , Yihao Zhang

Rather than directly considering the queuing delay of data, this memo focuses on reducing the delay that congestion signals experience within a queue management algorithm, which can be greater than the delay that the data itself experiences…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bob Briscoe

Consider a multihop wireless network serving multiple flows in which wireless link interference constraints are described by a link interference graph. For such a network, we design routing-scheduling policies that maximize the end-to-end…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar , Eytan Modiano

We present and study a new model for energy-aware and profit-oriented scheduling on a single processor. The processor features dynamic speed scaling as well as suspension to a sleep mode. Jobs arrive over time, are preemptable, and have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Peter Kling , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

In this research a continuous model for resource allocations in a queuing system is considered and a local prediction on the system behavior is developed. As a result we obtain a set of possible cases, some of which lead to quite clear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Tikhon Bogachev

In queueing systems, effective scheduling algorithms are essential for optimizing performance. Optimal scheduling for the M/G/k queue has been explored in the heavy traffic limit, but much remains unknown in the intermediate load regime. In…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ziyuan Wang , Izzy Grosof

In this paper, we study the delay-constrained input-queued switch where each packet has a deadline and it will expire if it is not delivered before its deadline. Such new scenario is motivated by the proliferation of real-time applications…

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We study randomized experiments in a service system when stochastic congestion can arise from temporarily limited supply or excess demand. Such congestion gives rise to cross-unit interference between the waiting customers, and analytic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Shuangning Li , Ramesh Johari , Xu Kuang , Stefan Wager

In this paper, we consider the problem of energy efficient uplink scheduling with delay constraint for a multi-user wireless system. We address this problem within the framework of constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs) wherein one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar , V. S. Borkar

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

A fundamental challenge in large-scale cloud networks and data centers is to achieve highly efficient server utilization and limit energy consumption, while providing excellent user-perceived performance in the presence of uncertain and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Debankur Mukherjee , Souvik Dhara , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

This paper presents Block, a distributed scheduling framework designed to optimize load balancing and auto-provisioning across instances in large language model serving frameworks by leveraging contextual information from incoming requests.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Wei Da , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

Minimizing waiting time for tasks waiting in the queue for execution is one of the important scheduling cri-teria which took a wide area in scheduling preemptive tasks. In this paper we present Changeable Time Quan-tum (CTQ) approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Samih Mohemmed Mostafa