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We study d-way balanced allocation, which assigns each incoming job to the lightest loaded among d randomly chosen servers. While prior work has extensively studied the performance of the basic scheme, there has been less published work on…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Amer Diwan , Prabhakar Raghavan , Eli Upfal

Big data analytics in cloud environments introduces challenges such as real-time load balancing besides security, privacy, and energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel load balancing algorithm in cloud environments that performs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Arman Aghdashi , Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri

Stream applications are widely deployed on the cloud. While modern distributed streaming systems like Flink and Spark Streaming can schedule and execute them efficiently, streaming dataflows are often dynamically changing, which may cause…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Pengqi Lu , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Hang Cao , Kun Li

In the problem of online load balancing on uniformly related machines with bounded migration, jobs arrive online one after another and have to be immediately placed on one of a given set of machines without knowledge about jobs that may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Marten Maack

Efficient virtual machine load balancing scheduling is crucial in cloud computing to optimize resource utilization and system performance. To address this issue, several load balancing scheduling algorithms have been proposed, including…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Priyank Vaidya , Abhinav Sharma , Murli Patel

To facilitate load balancing, distributed systems store data redundantly. We evaluate the load balancing performance of storage schemes in which each object is stored at $d$ different nodes, and each node stores the same number of objects.…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mehmet Fatih Aktas , Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Load balancing algorithms play a crucial role in delivering robust application performance in data centers and cloud networks. Recently, strong interest has emerged in Join-the-Idle-Queue (JIQ) algorithms, which rely on tokens issued by…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

In parallel computing, a problem is divided into a set of smaller tasks that are distributed across multiple processing elements. Balancing the load of the processing elements is key to achieving good performance and scalability. If the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Omer Demirel , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

The need for scalable and efficient stream analysis has led to the development of many open-source streaming data processing systems (SDPSs) with highly diverging capabilities and performance characteristics. While first initiatives try to…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jeyhun Karimov , Tilmann Rabl , Asterios Katsifodimos , Roman Samarev , Henri Heiskanen , Volker Markl

When processing data streams with highly skewed and nonstationary key distributions, we often observe overloaded partitions when the hash partitioning fails to balance data correctly. To avoid slow tasks that delay the completion of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zoltán Zvara , Péter G. N. Szabó , Balázs Barnabás Lóránt , András A. Benczúr

Load balancing, operator instance collocations and horizontal scaling are critical issues in Parallel Stream Processing Engines to achieve low data processing latency, optimized cluster utilization and minimized communication cost…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Kasper Grud Skat Madsen , Yongluan Zhou , Jianneng Cao

While load balancing in distributed-memory computing has been well-studied, we present an innovative approach to this problem: a unified, reduced-order model that combines three key components to describe "work" in a distributed system:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Jonathan Lifflander , Philippe P. Pebay , Nicole L. Slattengren , Pierre L. Pebay , Robert A. Pfeiffer , Joseph D. Kotulski , Sean T. McGovern

In geographically-distributed systems, communication latencies are non-negligible. The perceived processing time of a request is thus composed of the time needed to route the request to the server and the true processing time. Once a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

Network load balancers are central components in data centers, that distributes workloads across multiple servers and thereby contribute to offering scalable services. However, when load balancers operate in dynamic environments with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding , Thomas Heide Clausen

Designing algorithms for balanced allocation of clients to servers in dynamic settings is a challenging problem for a variety of reasons. Both servers and clients may be added and/or removed from the system periodically, and the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Vahab Mirrokni , Mikkel Thorup , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

In this paper, to analyze end-to-end timing behavior in heterogeneous processor and network environments accurately, we adopt a heterogeneous selection value on communication contention (HSV_CC) algorithm, which can synchronize tasks and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jaeyong Rho , Takuya Azumi , Mayo Nakagawa , Kenya Sato , Nobuhiko Nishio

We consider a load balancing system consisting of $n$ single-server queues working in parallel, with heterogeneous service rates. Jobs arrive to a central dispatcher, which has to dispatch them to one of the queues immediately upon arrival.…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yishun Luo , Martin Zubeldia

With the rapid development in wide area networks and low cost, powerful computational resources, grid computing has gained its popularity. With the advent of grid computing, space limitations of conventional distributed systems can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Dushyant Vaghela

We consider a system of $N$ parallel queues with identical exponential service rates and a single dispatcher where tasks arrive as a Poisson process. When a task arrives, the dispatcher always assigns it to an idle server, if there is any,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-14 D. Mukherjee , S. C. Borst , J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden , P. A. Whiting

Stream processing is a computing paradigm that supports real-time data processing for a wide variety of applications. At Meta, it's used across the company for various tasks such as deriving product insights, providing and improving user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Animesh Dangwal , Yufeng Jiang , Charlie Arnold , Jun Fan , Mohamed Bassem , Aish Rajagopal