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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 problem of minimizing total completion time on parallel machines subject to varying processing capacity. In this paper, we develop an approximation scheme for the problem under the data stream model where the input data is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

A fundamental problem in distributed computing is the distribution of requests to a set of uniform servers without a centralized controller. Classically, such problems are modeled as static balls into bins processes, where $m$ balls (tasks)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Petra Berenbrink , Tom Friedetzky , Peter Kling , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Lars Nagel , Chris Wastell

In cloud environments, load balancing task scheduling is an important issue that directly affects resource utilization. Unquestionably, load balancing scheduling is a serious aspect that must be considered in the cloud research field due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Thanaa S. Alnusairi , Ashraf A. Shahin , Yassine Daadaa

Applications in cloud platforms motivate the study of efficient load balancing under job-server constraints and server heterogeneity. In this paper, we study load balancing on a bipartite graph where left nodes correspond to job types and…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Wentao Weng , Xingyu Zhou , R. Srikant

The analysis of large-scale, parallel-server load balancing systems has relied heavily on mean-field analysis. A pivotal assumption for this framework is that the servers are exchangeable. However, modern data-centers have data locality…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Daan Rutten , Debankur Mukherjee

We consider a system of $N$ servers inter-connected by some underlying graph topology $G_N$. Tasks arrive at the various servers as independent Poisson processes of rate $\lambda$. Each incoming task is irrevocably assigned to whichever…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Debankur Mukherjee , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

The use of under-utilized Internet resources is widely recognized as a viable form of high performance computing. Sustained processing power of roughly 40T FLOPS using 4 million volunteered Internet hosts has been reported for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Scott Douglas , Aaron Harwood

This paper develops an optimal data aggregation policy for learning-based traffic control systems based on imagery collected from Road Side Units (RSUs) under imperfect communications. Our focus is optimizing semantic information flow from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Ahmad Sarlak , Xiwen Chen , Rahul Amin , Abolfazl Razi

The NP-hard scheduling problem P||C_max encompasses a set of tasks with known execution time which must be mapped to a set of identical machines such that the overall completion time is minimized. In this work, we improve existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Matthew Akram , Nikolai Maas , Peter Sanders , Dominik Schreiber

Cloud computing is emerging as an important platform for business, personal and mobile computing applications. In this paper, we study a stochastic model of cloud computing, where jobs arrive according to a stochastic process and request…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Siva Theja Maguluri , R Srikant , Lei Ying

Recent decades have witnessed the tremendous development of network science, which indeed brings a new and insightful language to model real systems of different domains. Betweenness, a widely employed centrality in network science, is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rui Fan , Ke Xu , Jichang Zhao

Coflow is a recently proposed network abstraction for data-parallel computing applications. This paper considers scheduling coflows with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, such as to minimize the total weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chi-Yeh Chen

Service systems often face task-server assignment-constraints due to skill-based routing or geographical conditions. Redundancy scheduling responds to this limited flexibility by replicating tasks to specific servers in agreement with these…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Ellen Cardinaels , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Nowadays, the data to be processed by database systems has grown so large that any conventional, centralized technique is inadequate. At the same time, general purpose computation on GPU (GPGPU) recently has successfully drawn attention…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Georgios Koutsoumpakis , Iakovos Koutsoumpakis , Anastasios Gounaris

In this paper, we analyze the performance of random load resampling and migration strategies in parallel server systems. Clients initially attach to an arbitrary server, but may switch server independently at random instants of time in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-12 A. Ganesh , S. Lilienthal , D. Manjunath , A. Proutiere , F. Simatos

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

We study large-scale systems operating under the JSQ$(d)$ policy in the presence of stringent task-server compatibility constraints. Consider a system with $N$ identical single-server queues and $M(N)$ task types, where each server is able…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Daan Rutten , Debankur Mukherjee

Data-parallel (DP) load balancing has emerged as a first-order bottleneck in large-scale LLM serving. When a model is sharded across devices via tensor parallelism (TP) or expert parallelism (EP) and replicated across many DP workers, every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tianci Bu , Yuan Lyu , Zixi Chen , Chendong Song , Hong Liang , Tsepten Gurung , Yuwei Fan , Yinyu Ye , Zijie Zhou

We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Susanne Albers , G. Wessel van der Heijden