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Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

We analyze the so-called Shortest Queue First (SQF) queueing discipline whereby a unique server addresses queues in parallel by serving at any time that queue with the smallest workload. Considering a stationary system composed of two…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Fabrice Guillemin , Alain Simonian

In this paper, we investigate scheduling policies that minimize the age of information in single-hop queueing systems. We propose a Last-Generated, First-Serve (LGFS) scheduling policy, in which the packet with the earliest generation time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

Serving systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) improve throughput by processing several requests concurrently. However, multiplexing hardware resources between concurrent requests involves non-trivial scheduling decisions. Practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ferdi Kossmann , Bruce Fontaine , Daya Khudia , Michael Cafarella , Samuel Madden

We propose an approach to utilize idle computational resources of supercomputers. The idea is to maintain an additional queue of low-priority non-parallel jobs and execute them in containers, using container migration tools to break the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Julia Dubenskaya , Stanislav Polyakov

Motivated primarily by applications in cloud computing, we study a simple, yet powerful, online allocation problem in which jobs of varying durations arrive over continuous time and must be assigned immediately and irrevocably to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Ian Kash , Rad Niazadeh

Datacenters are witnessing a rapid surge in the adoption of serverless functions for microservices-based applications. A vast majority of these microservices typically span less than a second, have strict SLO requirements, and are chained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran , Prashanth Thinakaran , Nachiappan Chidambaram , Mahmut T. Kandemir , Chita R. Das

Cloud computing is an emerging technology in distributed computing which facilitates pay per model as per user demand and requirement.Cloud consist of a collection of virtual machine which includes both computational and storage facility.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Dr. Amit Agarwal , Saloni Jain

We study tandem queueing systems in which servers work more efficiently in teams than on their own and customers are impatient in that they may leave the system while waiting for service. Our goal is to determine the server assignment…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Bihan Chatterjee , Sigrún Andradóttir , Hayriye Ayhan

In this paper, we consider a load balancing system under a general pull-based policy. In particular, each arrival is randomly dispatched to one of the servers whose queue lengths are below a threshold, if there are any; otherwise, this…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Xingyu Zhou , Jian Tan , Ness Shroff

Modern day continued demand for resource hungry services and applications in IT sector has led to development of Cloud computing. Cloud computing environment involves high cost infrastructure on one hand and need high scale computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Mayanka Katyal , Atul Mishra

We consider the problem of managing a bounded size First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queue buffer, where each incoming unit-sized packet requires several rounds of processing before it can be transmitted out. Our objective is to maximize the total…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Kirill Kogan , Alejandro López-Ortiz , Sergey I. Nikolenko , Alexander V. Sirotkin , Denis Tugaryov

Multiserver-job (MSJ) systems, where jobs need to run concurrently across many servers, are increasingly common in practice. The default service ordering in many settings is First-Come First-Served (FCFS) service. Virtually all theoretical…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Isaac Grosof , Yige Hong , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

For a cloud service provider, delivering optimal system performance while fulfilling Quality of Service (QoS) obligations is critical for maintaining a viably profitable business. This goal is often hard to attain given the irregular nature…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Husam Suleiman , Otman Basir

Can the popular shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) algorithm achieve a constant competitive ratio on multiple servers when server speeds are adjustable (speed scaling) with respect to the flow time plus energy consumption metric?…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

This paper studies a scheduling control problem for a single-server multiclass queueing network in heavy traffic, operating in a changing environment. The changing environment is modeled as a finite state Markov process that modulates the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Amarjit Budhiraja , Arka Ghosh , Xin Liu

We consider a discrete-time parallel service system consisting of $n$ heterogeneous single server queues with infinite capacity. Jobs arrive to the system as an i.i.d. process with rate proportional to $n$, and must be immediately…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yishun Luo , Martin Zubeldia

We consider a general queueing system with price-sensitive customers in which the service provider seeks to balance two objectives, maximizing the average revenue rate and minimizing the average queue length. Customers arrive according to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jacob Bergquist , Adam N. Elmachtoub

This article analyzes two classes of job selection policies that control how a network of autonomous aerial vehicles delivers goods from depots to customers. Customer requests (jobs) occur according to a spatio-temporal stochastic process…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Pasquale Grippa , Doris A. Behrens , Christian Bettstetter , Friederike Wall

Operating cloud service infrastructures requires high energy efficiency while ensuring a satisfactory service level. Motivated by data centers, we consider a workload routing and server speed control policy applicable to the system…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Seung Min Baik , Young Myoung Ko