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In many different settings, requests for service can arrive in near or true simultaneity with one another. This creates batches of arrivals to the underlying queueing system. In this paper, we study the staffing problem for the batch…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Andrew Daw , Robert C. Hampshire , Jamol Pender

We study the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

We study the asymptotic response time tail in the M/G/n multi-server queue with heavy-tailed (regularly varying) job sizes, a setting representative of modern computing workloads. For single-server systems, tail optimization is well…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhouzi Li , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

We consider a single large language model (LLM) server that serves a heterogeneous stream of queries belonging to $N$ distinct task types. Queries arrive according to a Poisson process, and each type occurs with a known prior probability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Emre Ozbas , Melih Bastopcu

Modern computing systems process jobs with resource requirements such as CPU and memory, which are described by multiresource jobs (MRJ) queueing models. In practice, job resource requirements are spread out over so many values, that it is…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Heyuan Yao , Willow Kowalik , Izzy Grosof

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

One of the basic properties of a queueing network is stability. Roughly speaking, it is the property that the total number of jobs in the network remains bounded as a function of time. One of the key questions related to the stability issue…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-19 David Gamarnik , Dmitriy Katz

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables service providers to maximize the business profit via resource-efficient QoS provisioning for customer requested Service Function Chains (SFCs). In recent applications, end-to-end delay is one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Fatemeh Yaghoubpour , Bahador Bakhshi , Fateme Seifi

Conventional wisdom for minimizing the average flow completion time (AFCT) in the datacenter network (DCN), where flow sizes are highly variable, would suggest scheduling every individual flow. However, we show that considering scheduling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Soheil Abbasloo , Yang Xu , H. Jonathan Chao

A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Qingkai Liang , Eytan Modiano

This paper describes a new scheduling algorithm to distribute jobs in server farm systems. The proposed algorithm overcomes the starvation caused by SRPT (Shortest Remaining Processing Time). This algorithm is used in process scheduling in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Ehsan Saboori , Shahriar Mohammadi , Shafigh Parsazad

Utilizing customers' service-time information, we study an easy-to-implement scheduling policy with two priority classes. By carefully designing the classes, the two-class priority rule achieves near-optimal performance. In particular, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Yan Chen , Jing Dong

We consider the problem of minimizing the delay of jobs moving through a directed graph of service nodes. In this problem, each node may have several links and is constrained to serve one link at a time. As jobs move through the network,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Stephen F. Smith

Till today we dreamt of imperceptible delay in a network. The computer science research grows today faster than ever offering more and more services (computational representational, graphical, intelligent implication etc) to its user. But…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Soumen Kanrar , M Siraj

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple data owners (a.k.a. FL clients) to collaboratively train machine learning models without disclosing sensitive private data. Existing FL research mostly focuses on the monopoly scenario in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Yuxin Shi , Han Yu

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on fault-prone machines communicating via a shared channel, also known as multiple-access channel. We have $n$ arbitrary length jobs to be scheduled on $m$ identical machines, $f$ of which are prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jarosław Mirek , Prudence W. H. Wong

We study the optimal method for rationing scarce resources through a queue system. The designer controls agents' entry into a queue and their exit, their service priority -- or queueing discipline -- as well as their information about queue…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-07-18 Yeon-Koo Che , Olivier Tercieux

Renting servers in the cloud is a generalization of the bin packing problem, motivated by job allocation to servers in cloud computing applications. Jobs arrive in an online manner, and need to be assigned to servers; their duration and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Mahtab Masoori , Lata Narayanan , Denis Pankratov

Classical list scheduling is a very popular and efficient technique for scheduling jobs in parallel and distributed platforms. It is inherently centralized. However, with the increasing number of processors, the cost for managing a single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Marc Tchiboukdjian , Nicolas Gast , Denis Trystram

Network capacity region of multi-queue multi-server queueing system with random ON-OFF connectivities and stationary arrival processes is derived in this paper. Specifically, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Hassan Halabian , Ioannis Lambadaris , Chung-Horng Lung