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Graph Partitioning is widely used in many real-world applications such as fraud detection and social network analysis, in order to enable the distributed graph computing on large graphs. However, existing works fail to balance the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Li Zeng , Haohan Huang , Binfan Zheng , Kang Yang , Shengcheng Shao , Jinhua Zhou , Jun Xie , Rongqian Zhao , Xin Chen

Virtual machine (VM) scheduling is an important technique to efficiently operate the computing resources in a data center. Previous work has mainly focused on consolidating VMs to improve resource utilization and thus to optimize energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Lin Wang , Songlin Hu , Biyu Zhou , Zhiyong Liu

In order to better accommodate the dramatically increasing demand for data caching and computing services, storage and computation capabilities should be endowed to some of the intermediate nodes within the network. In this paper, we design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yuchen Zhou , F. Richard Yu , Jian Chen , Yonghong Kuo

In this paper, we study the virtual network function (VNF) placement problem in mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled 5G networks to meet the stringent reliability and latency requirements of uRLLC applications. We pose it as a constrained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Aqsa Sayeed , Samaresh Bera

Nowadays, while the demand for capacity continues to expand, the blossoming of Internet of Everything is bringing in a paradigm shift to new perceptions of communication networks, ushering in a plethora of totally unique services. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

Emerging edge computing paradigms enable heterogeneous devices to collaborate on complex computation applications. However, for congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

In Covid-19 pandemic, the number of users connecting to the Internet using mobile devices increased. People are doing there every task using mobile phones [16]. These devices are battery-powered and have limited computation capabilities.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Arsalan Liaqat , Saqib Ilyas , Ghazala Mushtaq

Online services strive to maintain application responsiveness even when the traffic is unpredictable and fluctuating. Today's online services are commonly deployed as chains of microservices, each microservice packaged as one or more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Dilina Dehigama , Shyam Jesalpura , David Schall , Antonios Katsarakis , Marios Kogias , Rakesh Kumar , Boris Grot

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platforms consume significant energy, introducing high operational costs in edge and data centers. This paper presents a novel framework called GreenNFV that optimizes resource usage for network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-18 MD S Q Zulkar Nine , Tevfik Kosar , Fatih Bulut , Jinho Hwang

A current trend in networking and cloud computing is to provide compute resources over widely dispersed places exemplified by initiatives like Network Function Virtualisation. This paves the way for a widespread service deployment and can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Matthias Keller , Holger Karl

Network Virtualization (NV) is an emerging network dynamic planning technique to overcome network rigidity. As its necessary challenge, Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) enhances the scalability and flexibility of the network by decoupling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Peiying Zhang , Ning Chen , Shibao Li , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Chunxiao Jiang

Network protocols have historically been developed on an ad-hoc basis, and cloud computing is no exception. A fundamental management protocol, not yet standardized, that cloud providers need to run to support wide-area virtual network…

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We introduce an improved algorithm for the dynamic taxi sharing problem, i.e. a dispatcher that schedules a fleet of shared taxis as it is used by services like UberXShare and Lyft Shared. We speed up the basic online algorithm that looks…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Moritz Laupichler , Peter Sanders

This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

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Distributed graph platforms like Pregel have used vertex- centric programming models to process the growing corpus of graph datasets using commodity clusters. The irregular structure of graphs cause load imbalances across machines operating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ravikant Dindokar , Yogesh Simmhan

Virtual machine (VM) placement is very important for cloud platforms. While techniques, such as live virtual machine migration, are very useful to balance the load in the data centers, they are expensive operations. In this position paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-26 Xia Liu , Li Fan

5G radio access network (RAN) with network slicing methodology plays a key role in the development of the next-generation network system. RAN slicing focuses on splitting the substrate's resources into a set of self-contained programmable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tu N. Nguyen , Kashyab J. Ambarani , My T. Thai

Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused resources in the form of variable-priced virtual machines (VMs), known as "spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their standard fixed-priced resources. To lease…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-03 William Voorsluys , Saurabh Kumar Garg , Rajkumar Buyya

Fast, reliable, and efficient data transmission across wide-area networks is a predominant bottleneck for data-intensive cloud applications. This paper introduces OneDataShare, which is designed to eliminate the issues plaguing effective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Asif Imran , Md S Q Zulkar Nine , Kemal Guner , Tevfik Kosar

Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises greater flexibility for directing packet flows, and Network Function Virtualization promises to enable dynamic management of software-based network functions. However, the current divide between an…

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