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Heavy data load and wide cover range have always been crucial problems for online data processing in internet of things (IoT). Recently, mobile-edge computing (MEC) and unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) have emerged as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Many large enterprises that operate highly governed and complex ICT environments have no efficient and effective way to support their Data and AI teams in rapidly spinning up and tearing down self-service data and compute infrastructure, to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chinkit Patel , Kee Siong Ng

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models challenge serving infrastructures with dynamic, sparse expert utilization, causing instability on conventional systems designed for dense architectures. We propose EaaS, a novel serving system to enable…

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Stream processing is a computing paradigm that supports real-time data processing for a wide variety of applications. At Meta, it's used across the company for various tasks such as deriving product insights, providing and improving user…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Animesh Dangwal , Yufeng Jiang , Charlie Arnold , Jun Fan , Mohamed Bassem , Aish Rajagopal

As the complexity of enterprise systems increases, the need for monitoring and analyzing such systems also grows. A number of companies have built sophisticated monitoring tools that go far beyond simple resource utilization reports. For…

Edge computing decentralizes computing resources, allowing for novel applications in domains such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare and agriculture by reducing latency and improving performance. This decentralization is achieved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Suhrid Gupta , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Rajkumar Buyya

Modern cloud data warehouses store data in micro-partitions and rely on metadata (e.g., zonemaps) for efficient data pruning during query processing. Maintaining data clustering in a large-scale table is crucial for effective data pruning.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yipeng Liu , Renfei Zhou , Jiaqi Yan , Huanchen Zhang

Unsupervised clustering has emerged as a critical tool for uncovering hidden patterns in vast, unlabeled datasets. However, traditional methods, such as Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM), struggle with scalability owing to their quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Huang Chenan , Narumasa Tsutsumida

Distributed analytics engines such as Spark are a common choice for processing extremely large datasets. However, finding good configurations for these systems remains challenging, with each workload potentially requiring a different setup…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ayat Fekry , Lucian Carata , Thomas Pasquier , Andrew Rice , Andy Hopper

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly applied to optimize system performance in tasks such as resource management and network simulation. Unlike traditional ML tasks (e.g., image classification), networked systems often operate in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Daiyang Yu , Xinyu Chen , Yihan Zhang , Yan Liang , Yaqi Qiao , Fan Lai

Metadata are like the steam engine of the 21st century, driving businesses and offer multiple enhancements. Nevertheless, many companies are unaware that these data can be used efficiently to improve their own operation. This is where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Peter Hillmann , Erik Heiland , Andreas Karcher

Allocating resources in a distributed environment is a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we analyze the scheduling and placement of virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud platform of SAP, the world's largest enterprise resource planning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Arno Uhlig , Iris Braun , Matthias Wählisch

Amid the rapid advancements in large machine learning (ML) models, universities worldwide are investing substantial funds and efforts into GPU clusters. However, managing a shared GPU cluster poses a pyramid of challenges, from hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kaiqiang Xu , Decang Sun , Hao Wang , Zhenghang Ren , Xinchen Wan , Xudong Liao , Zilong Wang , Junxue Zhang , Kai Chen

Clustering is widely used for unsupervised structure discovery, yet it offers limited insight into how reliable each individual assignment is. Diagnostics, such as convergence behavior or objective values, may reflect global quality, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Aggelos Semoglou , John Pavlopoulos

Distributed in-memory data processing engines accelerate iterative applications by caching substantial datasets in memory rather than recomputing them in each iteration. Selecting a suitable cluster size for caching these datasets plays an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Hani Al-Sayeh , Muhammad Attahir Jibril , Bunjamin Memishi , Kai-Uwe Sattler

Even with the rise in popularity of over-parameterized models, simple dimensionality reduction and clustering methods, such as PCA and k-means, are still routinely used in an amazing variety of settings. A primary reason is the combination…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-08 Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Didong Li , David Dunson

The scale and complexity of workloads in modern cloud services have brought into sharper focus a critical challenge in automated index tuning -- the need to recommend high-quality indexes while maintaining index tuning scalability. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tarique Siddiqui , Wentao Wu

Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) face increasing challenges processing the growing volume of security-related information. Daily manual analysis of threat reports, security advisories, and vulnerability announcements leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Philipp Kuehn , Markus Bayer , Tobias Frey , Moritz Kerk , Christian Reuter

Heavy data load and wide cover range have always been crucial problems for internet of things (IoT). However, in mobile-edge computing (MEC) network, the huge data can be partly processed at the edge. In this paper, a MEC-based big data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Task offloading and scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are vital for meeting the low-latency demands of modern IoT and dynamic task scheduling scenarios. MEC reduces the processing burden on resource-constrained devices by enabling…

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