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In queueing systems, effective scheduling algorithms are essential for optimizing performance. Optimal scheduling for the M/G/k queue has been explored in the heavy traffic limit, but much remains unknown in the intermediate load regime. In…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ziyuan Wang , Izzy Grosof

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

Breadth-first search (BFS) is a fundamental graph algorithm that presents significant challenges for parallel implementation due to irregular memory access patterns, load imbalance and synchronization overhead. In this paper, we introduce a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Marati Bhaskar , Raghavendra Kanakagiri

This paper proposes a dynamic primal-dual type algorithm to solve the optimal scheduling problem in wireless networks subject to uncertain parameters, which are generated by stochastic network processes such as random packet arrivals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi

Load balancing across parallel servers is an important class of congestion control problems that arises in service systems. An effective load balancer relies heavily on accurate, real-time congestion information to make routing decisions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Gal Mendelson , Xu Kuang

Maintaining computational load balance is important to the performant behavior of codes which operate under a distributed computing model. This is especially true for GPU architectures, which can suffer from memory oversubscription if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Michael E. Rowan , Axel Huebl , Kevin N. Gott , Jack Deslippe , Maxence Thévenet , Remi Lehe , Jean-Luc Vay

In this paper we consider the problem of maximum throughput for tandem queueing system. We modeled this system as a Quasi-Birth-Death process. In order to do this we named level the number of customers waiting in the first buffer (including…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Daniel Marian Merezeanu , Daniela Andone

Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

Current-day data centers and high-volume cloud services employ a broad set of heterogeneous servers. In such settings, client requests typically arrive at multiple entry points, and dispatching them to servers is an urgent distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Guy Goren , Shay Vargaftik , Yoram Moses

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

Load balancing between base stations (BSs) allows BS capacity to be efficiently utilised and avoid outages. Currently, data-driven mechanisms strive to balance inter-BS load and reduce unnecessary handovers. The challenge is that over a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Mengbang Zou , Yun Tang , Adolfo Perrusquía , Weisi Guo

Modern computing workloads are often composed of parallelizable jobs. A parallelizable job can be completed more quickly when run on additional servers. However, each job can only use a limited number of servers, known as its…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Benjamin Berg , Benjamin Moseley , Weina Wang , Mor Harchol-Balter

In the edge computing paradigm, mobile devices offload the computational tasks to an edge server by routing the required data over the wireless network. The full potential of edge computing becomes realized only if a smart device selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Saeed Ghoorchian , Setareh Maghsudi

Managing delivery deadlines in automated warehouses and factories is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and ensuring seamless production. This study introduces the problem of online multi-agent pickup and delivery with task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hiroya Makino , Seigo Ito

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

We consider a large-scale parallel-server system, where each server independently adjusts its processing speed in a decentralized manner. The objective is to minimize the overall cost, which comprises the average cost of maintaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Daan Rutten , Martin Zubeldia , Debankur Mukherjee

Load balancing is the process of improving the Performance of a parallel and distributed system through is distribution of load among the processors [1-2]. Most of the previous work in load balancing and distributed decision making in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Abbas Karimi , Faraneh Zarafshan , Adznan. b. Jantan , A. R Ramli , M. Iqbal b. Saripan

Due to the ubiquity of batch data processing in cloud computing, the related problem of scheduling malleable batch tasks and its extensions have received significant attention recently. In this paper, we consider a fundamental model where a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau

We consider a large-scale service system where incoming tasks have to be instantaneously dispatched to one out of many parallel server pools. The user-perceived performance degrades with the number of concurrent tasks and the dispatcher…

We consider multiuser scheduling in wireless networks with channel variations and flow-level dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the MaxWeight algorithm, which is throughput-optimal in networks with a fixed number users, fails to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Shihuan Liu , Lei Ying , R. Srikant