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This report considers a sporadic real-time task system with $n$ sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor platform, in which the lowest-priority task is a segmented self-suspension task and the other higher-priority tasks are ordinary sporadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jian-Jia Chen

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

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 study the conditional sojourn time distributions of processor sharing (PS), foreground background processor sharing (FBPS) and shortest remaining processing time first (SRPT) scheduling disciplines on an event where the job size of a…

Performance · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Predrag R. Jelenkovic , Xiaozhu Kang , Jian Tan

Due to its optimality on a single machine for the problem of minimizing average flow time, Shortest-Remaining-Processing-Time (\srpt) appears to be the most natural algorithm to consider for the problem of minimizing average flow time on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Kyle Fox , Benjamin Moseley

We present a heavy traffic analysis for a single server queue with renewal arrivals and generally distributed i.i.d. service times, in which the server employs the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) policy. Under typical heavy…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-04 H. Christian Gromoll , Łukasz Kruk , Amber L. Puha

Can the popular shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) algorithm achieve a constant competitive ratio on multiple servers when server speeds are adjustable (speed scaling) with respect to the flow time plus energy consumption metric?…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

We study the asymptotic response time tail in the M/G/n multi-server queue with heavy-tailed (regularly varying) job sizes, a setting representative of modern computing workloads. For single-server systems, tail optimization is well…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhouzi Li , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

We study the classical scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan of a set of unit size jobs with precedence constraints on parallel identical machines. Research on the problem dates back to the landmark paper by Graham from 1966 who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Syamantak Das , Andreas Wiese

The assessment of a job's Quality of Service (QoS) often revolves around its flow time, also referred to as response time. This study delves into two fundamental objectives for scheduling jobs: the average flow time and the maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tung-Wei Kuo

We consider a single-server queue with renewal arrivals and i.i.d. service times, in which the server employs either the preemptive Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) policy, or its non-preemptive variant, Shortest Job First (SJF).…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-16 H. Christian Gromoll , Martin Keutel

Motivated by mail delivery scheduling problems arising in Royal Mail, we study a generalization of the fundamental makespan scheduling P||Cmax problem which we call the bounded job start scheduling problem. Given a set of jobs, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Dimitrios Letsios , Jeremy T. Bradley , Suraj G , Ruth Misener , Natasha Page

We consider a system of parallel queues where tasks are assigned (dispatched) to one of the available servers upon arrival. The dispatching decision is based on the full state information, i.e., on the sizes of the new and existing jobs. We…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Esa Hyytiä , Samuli Aalto , Aleksi Penttinen

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

In this paper, we explore how a natural generalization of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) can be a powerful \emph{meta-algorithm} for online scheduling. The meta-algorithm processes jobs to maximally reduce the objective of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Qingyun Chen , Sungjin Im , Aditya Petety

\textit{Weighted shortest processing time first} (WSPT) is one of the best known algorithms for total weighted completion time scheduling problems. For each job $J_j$, it first combines the two independent job parameters weight $w_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Samin Jamalabadi , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

The optimal scheduling problem in single-server queueing systems is a classic problem in queueing theory. The Gittins index policy is known to be the optimal preemptive nonanticipating policy (both for the open version of the problem with…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Samuli Aalto

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

This paper describes a new scheduling algorithm to distribute jobs in server farm systems. The proposed algorithm overcomes the starvation caused by SRPT (Shortest Remaining Processing Time). This algorithm is used in process scheduling in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Ehsan Saboori , Shahriar Mohammadi , Shafigh Parsazad

Efficient scheduling is crucial for interactive Large Language Model (LLM) applications, where low request completion time directly impacts user engagement. Size-based scheduling algorithms like Shortest Remaining Process Time (SRPT) aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Rana Shahout , Eran Malach , Chunwei Liu , Weifan Jiang , Minlan Yu , Michael Mitzenmacher