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A basic combinatorial online resource allocation problem is considered, where multiple servers have individual capacity constraints, and at each time slot, a set of jobs arrives, that have potentially different weights to different servers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Ajil Jalal , Rahul Vaze , Umang Bhaskar

Load balancing has been a fundamental building block of cloud and, more recently, edge computing environments. At the same time, in edge computing environments, prior research has highlighted that applications operate on similar…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Md Washik Al Azad , Spyridon Mastorakis

Distributed Stream Processing (DSP) focuses on the near real-time processing of large streams of unbounded data. To increase processing capacities, DSP systems are able to dynamically scale across a cluster of commodity nodes, ensuring a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Morgan Geldenhuys , Dominik Scheinert , Odej Kao , Lauritz Thamsen

This paper presents a distributed resource selection mechanism for diverse cloud-edge environments, enabling dynamic and context-aware allocation of resources to meet the demands of complex distributed applications. By distributing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Quentin Renau , Amjad Ullah , Emma Hart

Motivated by applications in data center networks, in this paper, we study the problem of scheduling in an input queued switch. While throughput maximizing algorithms in a switch are well-understood, delay analysis was developed only…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Prakirt Jhunjhunwala , Siva Theja Maguluri

It is well-known that the power-of-d choices routing algorithm maximizes throughput and is heavy-traffic optimal in load balancing systems with homogeneous servers. However, if the servers are heterogeneous, throughput optimality does not…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Daniela Hurtado-Lange , Siva Theja Maguluri

This paper presents a strategy to allocate services on a Cloud system without overloading nodes and maintaining the system stability with minimum cost. We specify an abstract model of cloud resources utilization, including multiple types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Leszek Sliwko , Vladimir Getov

We consider a system of $N$ parallel single-server queues with unit exponential service rates and a single dispatcher where tasks arrive as a Poisson process of rate $\lambda(N)$. When a task arrives, the dispatcher assigns it to a server…

Training and deploying deep learning models in real-world applications require processing large amounts of data. This is a challenging task when the amount of data grows to a hundred terabytes, or even, petabyte-scale. We introduce a hybrid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Davit Buniatyan

Elasticity is highly desirable for stream processing systems to guarantee low latency against workload dynamics, such as surges in data arrival rate and fluctuations in data distribution. Existing systems achieve elasticity following a…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Li Wang , Tom Z. J. Fu , Richard T. B. Ma , Marianne Winslett , Zhenjie Zhang

We present a number of novel algorithms, based on mathematical optimization formulations, in order to solve a homogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem, while minimizing the total energy consumption. In particular, for a system with a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan

So far, various solutions have been proposed for symmetric distribution of load cloud computing environments. In this article, a new solution to the optimal allocation of virtual machines in the cloud data centers is presented to provide a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hamid Reza naji , Reza Esmaeili

We study distributed load balancing in bipartite queueing systems where frontends route jobs to heterogeneous backends with workload-dependent service rates. The system's connectivity -- governed by compatibility constraints such as data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wenxin Zhang , Santiago R. Balseiro , Robert Kleinberg , Vahab Mirrokni , Balasubramanian Sivan , Bartek Wydrowski

This paper first presents a parallel solution for the Flowshop Scheduling Problem in parallel environment, and then proposes a novel load balancing strategy. The proposed Proportional Fairness Strategy (PFS) takes computational performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Zheng Sun , Xiaohong Huang , Yan Ma

Generative Recommender (GR) inference places embedding hot caches (EMB) and KV caches in direct competition for limited GPU HBM: allocating more memory to one improves its efficiency but degrades the other. Existing systems optimize them in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Wenjun Yu , Shuguang Han , Amelie Chi Zhou

There is a growing demand for live, on-the-fly processing of increasingly large amounts of data. In order to ensure the timely and reliable processing of streaming data, a variety of distributed stream processing architectures and platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Raphael Eidenbenz , Thomas Locher

Event processing is the cornerstone of the dynamic and responsive Internet of Things (IoT). Recent approaches in this area are based on representational state transfer (REST) principles, which allow event processing tasks to be placed at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 A. Mazayev , F. Al-Tam , N. Correia

In Cloud computing environment the resources are managed dynamically based on the need and demand for resources for a particular task. With a lot of challenges to be addressed our concern is Load balancing where load balancing is done for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Shahrulniza Musa , Muhammad Alam , Mazliham Mohd Su'ud

Joining the shortest or least loaded queue among $d$ randomly selected queues are two fundamental load balancing policies. Under both policies the dispatcher does not maintain any information on the queue length or load of the servers. In…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Tim Hellemans , Benny Van Houdt

Data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam and Apache Spark are used for a wide range of applications, from logs analysis to data preparation for DNN training. It is thus unsurprising that there has been a large amount of work on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ubaid Ullah Hafeez , Martin Maas , Mustafa Uysal , Richard McDougall