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We study online scheduling problems on a single processor that can be viewed as extensions of the well-studied problem of minimizing total weighted flow time. In particular, we provide a framework of analysis that is derived by duality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Spyros Angelopoulos , Giorgio Lucarelli , Nguyen Kim Thang

We show that a natural online algorithm for scheduling jobs on a heterogeneous multiprocessor, with arbitrary power functions, is scalable for the objective function of weighted flow plus energy.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Kirk Pruhs

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

The demand for real-time cloud applications has seen an unprecedented growth over the past decade. These applications require rapidly data transfer and fast computations. This paper considers a scenario where multiple IoT devices update…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Abubakr Alabbasi , Vaneet Aggarwal

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

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

We consider the online scheduling problem of moldable task graphs on multiprocessor systems for minimizing the overall completion time (or makespan). Moldable job scheduling has been widely studied in the literature, in particular when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun

In this paper, we consider the online problem of scheduling independent jobs \emph{non-preemptively} so as to minimize the weighted flow-time on a set of unrelated machines. There has been a considerable amount of work on this problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Giorgio Lucarelli , Benjamin Moseley , Nguyen Kim Thang , Abhinav Srivastav , Denis Trystram

Scientific workflows have been predominantly used for complex and large scale data analysis and scientific computation/automation and the need for robust workflow scheduling techniques has grown considerably. But, most of the existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-04 S. Jaya Nirmala , Amrith Rajagopal Setlur , Har Simrat Singh , Sudhanshu Khoriya

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou

This paper addresses the data-locality-aware task assignment and scheduling problem for distributed job executions. Our goal is to minimize job completion times without prior knowledge of future job arrivals. We propose an Optimal Balanced…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hailiang Zhao , Xueyan Tang , Peng Chen , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng

Work-stealing systems are typically oblivious to the nature of the tasks they are scheduling. For instance, they do not know or take into account how long a task will take to execute or how many subtasks it will spawn. Moreover, the actual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Martin Wimmer , Daniel Cederman , Jesper Larsson Träff , Philippas Tsigas

Cloud Computing is the latest blooming technology in the era of Computer Science and Information Technology domain. There is an enormous pool of data centres, which are termed as Clouds where the services and associated data are being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Nallakumar R. , Sruthi Priya K. S

All-optical switching networks have been considered a promising candidate for the next generation data center networks thanks to its scalability in data bandwidth and power efficiency. However, the bufferless nature and the nonzero recon-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Chang-Heng Wang , Tara Javidi

Datacenter networks routinely support the data transfers of distributed computing frameworks in the form of coflows, i.e., sets of concurrent flows related to a common task. The vast majority of the literature has focused on the problem of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Quang-Trung Luu , Olivier Brun , Rachid El-Azouzi , Francesco De Pellegrini , Balakrishna J. Prabhu , Cédric Richier

We study flow scheduling under node capacity constraints. We are given capacitated nodes and an online sequence of jobs, each with a release time and a demand to be routed between two nodes. A schedule specifies which jobs are routed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Searidang Pa , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

We consider an online scheduling problem, motivated by the issues present at the joints of networks using ATM and TCP/IP. Namely, IP packets have to broken down to small ATM cells and sent out before their deadlines, but cells corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Christoph Durr , Lukasz Jez , Nguyen Kim Thang

We consider the pull-based broadcast scheduling model. In this model, there are n unit-sized pages of information available at the server. Requests arrive over time at the server asking for a specific page. When the server transmits a page,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Sungjin Im , Maxim Sviridenko

This paper studies the problem of congestion control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks that have to support a mixture of best-effort and real-time traffic. Optimization and stochastic network theory have been successful in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-13 Juan Jose Jaramillo , R. Srikant

Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Dong Wang