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Energy harvesting (EH) has been developed to extend the lifetimes of energy-limited communication systems. In this letter, we consider a single-user EH communication system, in which both of the arrival data and the harvested energy curves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Milad Rezaee , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Mohammad Reza Aref

We first consider the static problem of allocating resources to ( i.e. , scheduling) multiple distributed application framework s, possibly with different priorities and server preferences , in a private cloud with heterogeneous servers.…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-01-01 George Kesidis , Yuquan Shan , Yujia Wang , Bhuvan Urgaonkar , Jalal Khamse-Ashari , Ioanns Lambadaris

Energy conservation of large data centers for high-performance computing workloads, such as deep learning with big data, is of critical significance, where cutting down a few percent of electricity translates into million-dollar savings.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xinxin Mei , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu , Hai Liu , Yiu-Wing Leung , Zongpeng Li

The ever increasing adoption of mobile devices with limited energy storage capacity, on the one hand, and more awareness of the environmental impact of massive data centres and server pools, on the other hand, have both led to an increased…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Rodrigo A. Carrasco , Garud Iyengar , Cliff Stein

We consider a new and general online resource allocation problem, where the goal is to maximize a function of a positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix with a scalar budget constraint. The problem data arrives online, and the algorithm needs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Reza Eghbali , James Saunderson , Maryam Fazel

In this paper we initiate the study of the heterogeneous capacitated $k$-center problem: given a metric space $X = (F \cup C, d)$, and a collection of capacities. The goal is to open each capacity at a unique facility location in $F$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Amit Kumar

Performance prediction is essential for energy-efficient computing in heterogeneous computing systems that integrate CPUs and GPUs. However, traditional performance modeling methods often rely on exhaustive offline profiling, which becomes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhong Zheng , Zhiling Lan , Xingfu Wu , Valerie E. Taylor , Michael E. Papka

The deployment of business critical applications and information infrastructures are moving to the cloud. This means they are hosted in large scale data centers with other business applications and infrastructures with less (or none)…

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Control data separation architecture (CDSA) is a more efficient architecture to overcome the overhead issue than the conventional cellular networks, especially for the huge bursty traffic like Internet of Things, and over-the-top (OTT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Qiang Liu , Gang Wu , Yingchu Guo , Yusong Zhang

We investigate the weighted-sum distortion minimization problem in transmitting two correlated Gaussian sources over Gaussian channels using two energy harvesting nodes. To this end, we develop offline and online power control policies to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yunquan Dong , Zhi Chen , Jian Wang , Byonghyo Shim

We study the problem of networked online convex optimization, where each agent individually decides on an action at every time step and agents cooperatively seek to minimize the total global cost over a finite horizon. The global cost is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Yiheng Lin , Judy Gan , Guannan Qu , Yash Kanoria , Adam Wierman

We investigate the distributed DC-Optimal Power Flow (DC-OPF) problem for a dynamic and uncertain environment. The unpredictable supply of renewable resources and varying prices of the electricity market are a few factors responsible for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Sushobhan Chatterjee , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

A spurt of progress in wireless power transfer (WPT) and mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to enhance the quality and productivity of manufacturing. Scheduling in such a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Hao Wu , Xinchen Lyu , Hui Tian

This paper proposes a novel class of distributed continuous-time coordination algorithms to solve network optimization problems whose cost function is a sum of local cost functions associated to the individual agents. We establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

We consider energy minimization for data-intensive applications run on large number of servers, for given performance guarantees. We consider a system, where each incoming application is sent to a set of servers, and is considered to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ajay Badita , Rooji Jinan , Balajee Vamanan , Parimal Parag

This paper studies a model for online job scheduling in green datacenters. In green datacenters, resource availability depends on the power supply from the renewables. Intermittent power supply from renewables leads to intermittent resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Vanamala Venkataswamy

Motivated by distributed schedulers that combine the power-of-d-choices with late binding and systems that use replication with cancellation-on-start, we study the performance of the LL(d) policy which assigns a job to a server that…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Tim Hellemans , Benny Van Houdt

The surge in generative AI workloads has created a need for scalable inference systems that can flexibly harness both GPUs and specialized accelerators while containing operational costs. This paper proposes a hardware-agnostic control loop…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yahav Biran , Imry Kissos

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

Modern data centers contain thousands of servers making them major consumers of electricity. To minimize their environmental impact, it is critical that we use their resources efficiently. In this paper we study how to discover the optimal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peili Mao , Joseph Billingsley , Wang Miao , Geyong Mi , Ke Li