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In this paper, we consider a goal-oriented communication problem for edge server monitoring, where jobs arrive intermittently at multiple dispatchers and must be assigned to shared edge servers with finite queues and time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Samuel Chamoun , Christian McDowell , Robin Buchanan , Kevin Chan , Eric Graves , Yin Sun

We consider the fundamental problem of managing a bounded size queue buffer where traffic consists of packets of varying size, where each packet requires several rounds of processing before it can be transmitted from the queue buffer. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Kirill Kogan , Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz , Sergey I. Nikolenko , Gabriel Scalosub , Michael Segal

This paper investigates the network load balancing problem in data centers (DCs) where multiple load balancers (LBs) are deployed, using the multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework. The challenges of this problem consist of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding

This thesis explores a particular class of distributed optimization methods for various separable resource allocation problems, which are of high interest in a wide array of multi-agent settings. A distinctly motivating application for this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Tor Anderson

Problem Definition: Allocating sufficient capacity to cloud services is a challenging task, especially when demand is time-varying, heterogeneous, contains batches, and requires multiple types of resources for processing. In this setting,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-21 Eugene Furman , Arik Senderovich , Shane Bergsma , J. Christopher Beck

The problem of load balancing in a distribution network under unknown time- varying demand and supply is studied. A set of distributed controllers which regulate the amount of flow through the edges is designed to guarantee convergence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Claudio De Persis

As applications become more distributed to improve user experience and offer higher availability, businesses rely on geographically dispersed datacenters that host such applications more than ever. Dedicated inter-datacenter networks have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Mohammad Noormohammadpour

A multiple access system with bursty data arrivals to the terminals is considered. The users are frame-synchronized, with variable sized packets independently arriving in each slot at every transmitter. Each packet needs to be delivered to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Sakshi Kapoor , Sreejith Sreekumar , Sibi Raj B Pillai

We consider load balancing in service systems with affinity relations between jobs and servers. Specifically, an arriving job can be allocated to a fast, primary server from a particular selection associated with this job or to a secondary…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Ellen Cardinaels , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Motivated by the growing demand for serving large language model inference requests, we study distributed load balancing for global serving systems with network latencies. We consider a fluid model in which continuous flows of requests…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Santiago R. Balseiro , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Bartek Wydrowski

We consider a large-scale parallel-server system, where each server independently adjusts its processing speed in a decentralized manner. The objective is to minimize the overall cost, which comprises the average cost of maintaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Daan Rutten , Martin Zubeldia , Debankur Mukherjee

Today's era is characterized as the "digital transformation era". Digital processes and information systems are used in every aspect of social and business activity. The use of information technology over the internet is so extensive that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Sotiris P. Gayialis , Evripidis P. Kechagias , Angeliki Deligianni , Grigorios D. Konstantakopoulos , Georgios A. Papadopoulos

Efficiently exploiting the resources of data centers is a complex task that requires efficient and reliable load balancing and resource allocation algorithms. The former are in charge of assigning jobs to servers upon their arrival in the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Céline Comte

In this paper, we propose a novel, computational efficient, dynamic ridesharing algorithm. The beneficial computational properties of the algorithm arise from casting the ridesharing problem as a linear assignment problem between fleet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Andrea Simonetto , Julien Monteil , Claudio Gambella

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley

Network load balancers are central components in data centers, that distributes workloads across multiple servers and thereby contribute to offering scalable services. However, when load balancers operate in dynamic environments with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding , Thomas Heide Clausen

Distributed Stream Processing (DSP) systems enable processing large streams of continuous data to produce results in near to real time. They are an essential part of many data-intensive applications and analytics platforms. The rate at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Kordian Gontarska , Morgan Geldenhuys , Dominik Scheinert , Philipp Wiesner , Andreas Polze , Lauritz Thamsen

We present a distributed algorithm for joint power control, routing and scheduling in multihop wireless networks. The algorithm also provides for Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, namely, end-to-end mean delay guarantees and hard…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

Control of wireless multihop networks, while simultaneously meeting end-to-end mean delay requirements of different flows is a challenging problem. Additionally, distributed computation of control parameters adds to the complexity. Using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

We study distributed load balancing in bipartite queueing systems where frontends route jobs to heterogeneous backends with workload-dependent service rates. The system's connectivity -- governed by compatibility constraints such as data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wenxin Zhang , Santiago R. Balseiro , Robert Kleinberg , Vahab Mirrokni , Balasubramanian Sivan , Bartek Wydrowski