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Applications in data-parallel computing typically consist of multiple stages. In each stage, a set of intermediate parallel data flows (Coflow) is produced and transferred between servers to enable starting of next stage. While there has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Javad Ghaderi

We are given a set of jobs, each one specified by its release date, its deadline and its processing volume (work), and a single (or a set of) speed-scalable processor(s). We adopt the standard model in speed-scaling in which if a processor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Evripidis Bampis , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Nemparis

Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Dong Wang

The coflow scheduling problem has emerged as a popular abstraction in the last few years to study data communication problems within a data center. In this basic framework, each coflow has a set of communication demands and the goal is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mosharaf Chowdhury , Samir Khuller , Manish Purohit , Sheng Yang , Jie You

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

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

Many emerging distributed applications, including big data analytics, generate a number of flows that concurrently transport data across data center networks. To improve their performance, it is required to account for the behavior of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Cristian Hernandez Benet , Andreas J. Kassler , Gianni Antichi , Theophilus A. Benson , Gergely Pongracz

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

Coflow has emerged as a fundamental application-layer abstraction in distributed systems, representing communication dependencies and enabling collaborative management of related flows to enhance job completion efficiency. To meet the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Ye Tao

With the increasing importance of distributed scientific workflows, there is a critical need to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) constraints, such as minimizing time or limiting execution to resource subsets. However, the unpredictable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Md Hasanur Rashid , Jesun Firoz , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Meng Tang , Dong Dai

To improve the application-level communication performance, scheduling of coflows, a collection of parallel flows sharing the same objective, is prevalent in modern data center networks (DCNs). Meanwhile, a hybrid-switched DCN design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian

We present a new flow-based formulation for identical parallel machine scheduling with a regular objective function and without idle time. The formulation is constructed with the help of a decision diagram that represents all job sequences…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Daniel Kowalczyk , Roel Leus , Christopher Hojny , Stefan Røpke

The coflow scheduling problem is considered: given an input/output switch with each port having a fixed capacity, find a scheduling algorithm that minimizes the weighted sum of the coflow completion times respecting the port capacities,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Akhil Bhimaraju , Debanuj Nayak , Rahul Vaze

Large-scale controlled evacuations require emergency services to select evacuation routes, decide departure times, and mobilize resources to issue orders, all under strict time constraints. Existing algorithms almost always allow for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Caroline Even , Andreas Schutt , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The scheduling literature has traditionally focused on a single type of resource (e.g., computing nodes). However, scientific applications in modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems process large amounts of data, hence have diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun , Padma Raghavan

We investigate the scheduling of $n$ jobs divided into $c$ classes on $m$ identical parallel machines. For every class there is a setup time which is required whenever a machine switches from the processing of one class to another class.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

We study the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

We study the problem of scheduling VMs (Virtual Machines) in a distributed server platform, motivated by cloud computing applications. The VMs arrive dynamically over time to the system, and require a certain amount of resources (e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

We consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC '01, SODA '03, FOCS '18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yossi Azar , Stefano Leonardi , Noam Touitou

Collaborative edge computing has become a popular paradigm where edge devices collaborate by sharing resources. Data dissemination is a fundamental problem in CEC to decide what data is transmitted from which device and how. Existing works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yuvraj Sahni , Jiannong Cao , Lei Yang , Shengwei Wang