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We consider the load-balancing design for forwarding incoming flows to access points (APs) in high-density wireless networks with both channel fading and flow-level dynamics, where each incoming flow has a certain amount of service demand…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Bin Li , Xiangqi Kong , Lei Wang

We consider a heterogeneous network (HetNet) of base stations (BSs) connected via a backhaul network of routers and wired/wireless links with limited capacity. The optimal provision of such networks requires proper resource allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Wei-Cheng Liao , Mingyi Hong , Hamid Farmanbar , Xu Li , Zhi-Quan Luo , Hang Zhang

Analyzing big data in a highly dynamic environment becomes more and more critical because of the increasingly need for end-to-end processing of this data. Modern data flows are quite complex and there are not efficient, cost-based,…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Georgia Kougka , Anastasios Gounaris

Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) is often used, due to its simplicity, for scheduling packets or tasks. With WRR, a number of packets equal to the weight allocated to a flow can be served consecutively, which leads to a bursty service.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee , Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Marc Boyer

Datacenter networks commonly facilitate the transmission of data in distributed computing frameworks through coflows, which are collections of parallel flows associated with a common task. Most of the existing research has concentrated on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Olivier Brun , Rachid El-Azouzi , Quang-Trung Luu , Francesco De Pellergrini , Balakrishna J. Prabhu , Cédric Richier

This paper proposes a novel framework to predict traffic flows' bandwidth ahead of time. Modern network management systems share a common issue: the network situation evolves between the moment the decision is made and the moment when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Maxime Labonne , Jorge López , Claude Poletti , Jean-Baptiste Munier

Control of multihop Wireless networks in a distributed manner while providing end-to-end delay requirements for different flows, is a challenging problem. Using the notions of Draining Time and Discrete Review from the theory of fluid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

We analyze the problem of scheduling in wireless networks to meet end-to-end service guarantees. Using network slicing to decouple the queueing dynamics between flows, we show that the network's ability to meet hard throughput and deadline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we shed new light on a classical scheduling problem: given a slot-timed, constant-capacity server, what short-run scheduling decisions must be made to provide long-run service guarantees to competing flows of unit-sized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Yike Xu , Mark S. Andersland

In BUNDLE: Real-Time Multi-Threaded Scheduling to Reduce Cache Contention, Tessler and Fisher propose a scheduling mechanism and combined worst-case execution time calculation method that treats the instruction cache as a beneficial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Corey Tessler , Nathan Fisher

We present an $m^{4/3+o(1)}\log W$-time algorithm for solving the minimum cost flow problem in graphs with unit capacity, where $W$ is the maximum absolute value of any edge weight. For sparse graphs, this improves over the best known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kyriakos Axiotis , Aleksander Mądry , Adrian Vladu

Short TCP flows that are critical for many interactive applications in data centers are plagued by large flows and head-of-line blocking in switches. Hash-based load balancing schemes such as ECMP aggravate the matter and result in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hong Xu , Baochun Li

We introduce and investigate reroutable flows, a robust version of network flows in which link failures can be mitigated by rerouting the affected flow. Given a capacitated network, a path flow is reroutable if after failure of an arbitrary…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jannik Matuschke , S. Thomas McCormick , Gianpaolo Oriolo

This paper focuses on the problem of coflow scheduling with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chi-Yeh Chen

The performances of the routing protocols are important since they compute the primary path between source and destination. In addition, routing protocols need to detect failure within a short period of time when nodes move to start…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Radwan abujassar , Mohammed ghanbari

In multi-hop wireless networks, flow demands mean that some nodes have routing demands of transmitting their data to other nodes with a certain level of transmission rate. When a set of nodes have been deployed with flow demands, it is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Zimu Yuan

Training deep learning models takes an extremely long execution time and consumes large amounts of computing resources. At the same time, recent research proposed systems and compilers that are expected to decrease deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Sean Parker , Sami Alabed , Eiko Yoneki

Coflow is a network abstraction used to represent communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem encountered in large data centers is a challenging $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. This paper tackles the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chi-Yeh Chen

This paper studies the problem of broadcasting real-time flows in multi-hop wireless networks. We consider that each packet has a stringent deadline, and each node in the network obtains some utility based on the number of packets delivered…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Aria HasanzadeZonuzy , I-Hong Hou , Srinivas Shakkottai

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