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Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

This paper studies load balancing for many-server ($N$ servers) systems. Each server has a buffer of size $b-1,$ and can have at most one job in service and $b-1$ jobs in the buffer. The service time of a job follows the Coxian-2…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Xin Liu , Kang Gong , Lei Ying

We present here a cost effective framework for a robust scalable and distributed job processing system that adapts to the dynamic computing needs easily with efficient load balancing for heterogeneous systems. The design is such that each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Putti Srinivasrao , V. P. C. Rao , A. Govardhan , Ambika Prasad Mohanty

We consider load balancing problem in a cache network consisting of storage-enabled servers forming a distributed content delivery scenario. Previously proposed load balancing solutions cannot perfectly balance out requests among servers,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Farzad Parvaresh , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

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

We present a new framework for designing nonpreemptive and job-size oblivious scheduling policies in the multiserver-job queueing model. The main requirement is to identify a static and balanced sub-partition of the server set and ensure…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jonatha Anselmi , Josu Doncel

In parallel-server systems with a single stream of arrivals (a.k.a. load balancing), Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) is a popular routing algorithm. There is extensive literature studying this system in various asymptotic regimes, but all…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniela Hurtado-Lange , Izzy Grosof

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

Load balancing is a common approach in web server farms or inventory routing problems. An important issue in such systems is to determine the server to which an incoming request should be routed to optimize a given performance criteria. In…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Urtzi Ayesta , Manu K Gupta , Ina Maria Verloop

Efficiently exploiting servers in data centers requires performance analysis methods that account not only for the stochastic nature of demand but also for server heterogeneity. Although several recent works proved optimality results for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mark van der Boor , Céline Comte

Motivated by the growing demand for serving large language model inference requests, we study distributed load balancing for global serving systems with network latencies. We consider a fluid model in which continuous flows of requests…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Santiago R. Balseiro , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Bartek Wydrowski

In cloud computing environment, load balancing is a key issue which is required to distribute the dynamic workload over multiple machines to make certain that no single machine is overloaded. In recent research, many organizations lose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Chukwuneke Chiamaka Ijeoma , Inyiama , Hyacinth C. , Amaefule Samuel , Onyesolu Moses Okechukwu , Asogwa Doris Chinedu

We study the load balancing system operating under Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) in the many-server heavy-traffic regime. If $N$ is the number of servers, we let the difference between the total service rate and the total arrival rate be…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Daniela Hurtado-Lange , Siva Theja Maguluri

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

The Load-Balanced Router architecture has received a lot of attention because it does not require centralized scheduling at the internal switch fabrics. In this paper we reexamine the architecture, motivated by its potential to turn off…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-04 Matthew Andrews , Lisa Zhang

We present Prequal (Probing to Reduce Queuing and Latency), a load balancer for distributed multi-tenant systems. Prequal aims to minimize real-time request latency in the presence of heterogeneous server capacities and non-uniform,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bartek Wydrowski , Robert Kleinberg , Stephen M. Rumble , Aaron Archer

We consider the problem of deterministic load balancing of tokens in the discrete model. A set of $n$ processors is connected into a $d$-regular undirected network. In every time step, each processor exchanges some of its tokens with each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Petra Berenbrink , Ralf Klasing , Adrian Kosowski , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Przemyslaw Uznanski

Modern high load applications store data using multiple database instances. Such an architecture requires data consistency, and it is important to ensure even distribution of data among nodes. Load balancing is used to achieve these goals.…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Alexander Slesarev , Mikhail Mikhailov , George Chernishev

Use-case-specific network slicing in decentralized multi-tenancy cloud environments is a promising approach to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of resources in next-generation communication networks. Our findings associate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Anthony Kiggundu , Bin Han , Dennis Krummacker , Hans D. Schotten

Inspired by quantum switches, we consider a discrete-time multi-way matching system with two classes of arrivals: requests for entangled pair of qubits between two nodes, and qubits from each node that can be used to serve the requests. An…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Martin Zubeldia , Prakirt R. Jhunjhunwala , Siva Theja Maguluri