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Coflow is a network abstraction used to represent communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem encountered in large data centers is a challenging $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. This paper tackles the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chi-Yeh Chen

In their seminal paper that initiated the field of algorithmic mechanism design, \citet{NR99} studied the problem of designing strategyproof mechanisms for scheduling jobs on unrelated machines aiming to minimize the makespan. They provided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Eric Balkanski , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Xizhi Tan

We consider the pull-based broadcast scheduling model. In this model, there are n unit-sized pages of information available at the server. Requests arrive over time at the server asking for a specific page. When the server transmits a page,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sungjin Im , Maxim Sviridenko

In this paper, we consider a full duplex wireless powered communication network where multiple users with RF energy harvesting capabilities communicate to a hybrid energy and information access point. An optimization framework is proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Muhammad Shahid Iqbal , Yalcin Sadi , Sinem Coleri

We present a hybrid optimization framework for a class of problems, formalized as a generalization of the Continuous Energy-Con\-strained Scheduling Problem (CECSP), introduced by Nattaf et al. (2014). This class is obtained from challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Roel Brouwer , Marjan van den Akker , Han Hoogeveen

The optimal scheduling of interfering links in a dense wireless network with full frequency reuse is a challenging task. The traditional method involves first estimating all the interfering channel strengths then optimizing the scheduling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Wei Cui , Kaiming Shen , Wei Yu

We present an algorithm that efficiently computes nearly-optimal solutions to a class of combinatorial reconfiguration problems on weighted, undirected graphs. Inspired by societally relevant applications in networked infrastructure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Samuel Talkington , Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Daniel K. Molzahn

This paper establishes performance guarantees for online algorithms that schedule stochastic, nonpreemptive jobs on unrelated machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. Prior work on unrelated machine scheduling with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Varun Gupta , Benjamin Moseley , Marc Uetz , Qiaomin Xie

Modern platforms are using accelerators in conjunction with standard processing units in order to reduce the running time of specific operations, such as matrix operations, and improve their performance. Scheduling on such hybrid platforms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vincent Fagnon , Imed Kacem , Giorgio Lucarelli , Bertrand Simon

Wireless powered mobile edge computing has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to enhance the computation capability of low-power wireless devices in Industrial Internet of Things. An efficient resource scheduling method is critical yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Hao Wu , Hui Tian , Shaoshuai Fan , Jiazhi Ren

In this paper we develop scheduling policies that maximize the stability region of a wireless network under the assumption that mutual information accumulation is implemented at the physical layer. When the link quality between nodes is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Jing Yang , Yanpei Liu , Stark C. Draper

We study stochastic optimization algorithms for constrained nonconvex stochastic optimization problems with Markovian data. In particular, we focus on the case when the transition kernel of the Markov chain is state-dependent. Such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Abhishek Roy , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Saeed Ghadimi

Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study a fundamental online job admission problem where jobs with deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates, and the task is to determine a preemptive single-server schedule which maximizes the number of jobs that complete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Lin Chen , Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior , Cliff Stein

Priority queues are fundamental abstract data structures, often used to manage limited resources in parallel programming. Several proposed parallel priority queue implementations are based on skiplists, harnessing the potential for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Irina Calciu , Hammurabi Mendes , Maurice Herlihy

We study a fundamental online scheduling problem where jobs with processing times, weights, and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to preemptively schedule these jobs on a single or multiple (possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Franziska Eberle

This paper studies the fundamental problem of how to reroute $k$ unsplittable flows of a certain demand in a capacitated network from their current paths to their respective new paths, in a congestion-free manner and fast. This scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Szymon Dudycz , Mahmoud Parham , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Decision problems encountered in practice often possess a highly dynamic and uncertain nature. In particular fast changing forecasts for parameters (e.g., photovoltaic generation forecasts in the context of energy management) pose large…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Jens Hönen , Johann L. Hurink , Bert Zwart

Latency-critical services have been widely deployed in cloud environments. For cost-efficiency, multiple services are usually co-located on a server. Thus, run-time resource scheduling becomes the pivot for QoS control in these complicated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Lei Liu