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In multi-server distributed queueing systems, the access of stochastically arriving jobs to resources is often regulated by a dispatcher, also known as load balancer. A fundamental problem consists in designing a load balancing algorithm…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-23 Jonatha Anselmi , Francois Dufour

This paper studies the distributed scheduling of traffic flows with arbitrary deadlines that arrive at their source nodes and are transmitted to different destination nodes via multiple intermediate nodes in a wireless mesh network. When a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xin Wang , Xudong Wang

Consider the problem of a multiple access channel in a time dependent environment with a large number of users. In such a system, mostly due to practical constraints (e.g., decoding complexity), not all users can be scheduled together, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

A network's transmission capacity is the maximal rate of traffic inflow that the network can handle without causing congestion. Here we study how to enhance this quantity by redistributing the capability of individual nodes while preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Guoqing Zhang , Shi Zhou , Di Wang , Gang Yan , Guoqiang Zhang

Job submissions of parallel applications to production supercomputer systems will have to be carefully tuned in terms of the job submission parameters to obtain minimum response times. In this work, we have developed an end-to-end resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Swetha Hariharan , Prakash Murali , Abhishek Pasari , Sathish Vadhiyar

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning-based method for microservice resource scheduling and optimization, aiming to address issues such as uneven resource allocation, high latency, and insufficient throughput in traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yujun Zou , Nia Qi , Yingnan Deng , Zhihao Xue , Ming Gong , Wuyang Zhang

In most practical settings and theoretical analyses, one assumes that a model can be trained until convergence. However, the growing complexity of machine learning datasets and models may violate such assumptions. Indeed, current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mengtian Li , Ersin Yumer , Deva Ramanan

The overall performance of a distributed system is highly dependent on the communication efficiency of the system. Although network resources (links, bandwidth) are becoming increasingly more available, the communication performance of data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-02 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa , Nicolae Tapus , Florin Pop , Ciprian Mihai Dobre

A canonical setting for non-monetary online resource allocation is one where agents compete over multiple rounds for a single item per round, with i.i.d. valuations and additive utilities across rounds. With $n$ symmetric agents, a natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 David X. Lin , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We study the problem of routing queries to large language models (LLMs) under cost, GPU resources, and concurrency constraints. Prior per-query routing methods often fail to control batch-level cost, especially under non-uniform or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jelena Markovic-Voronov , Kayhan Behdin , Yuanda Xu , Zhengze Zhou , Zhipeng Wang , Rahul Mazumder

This work studies fixed priority (FP) scheduling of real-time jobs with end-to-end deadlines in a distributed system. Specifically, given a multi-stage pipeline with multiple heterogeneous resources of the same type at each stage, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Niraj Kumar , Chuanchao Gao , Arvind Easwaran

In geographically-distributed systems, communication latencies are non-negligible. The perceived processing time of a request is thus composed of the time needed to route the request to the server and the true processing time. Once a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

In this paper, we study the peak-aware energy scheduling problem using the competitive framework with machine learning prediction. With the uncertainty of energy demand as the fundamental challenge, the goal is to schedule the energy output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Russell Lee , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Jian Li

The resource allocation problem consists of the optimal distribution of a budget between agents in a group. We consider such a problem in the context of open systems, where agents can be replaced at some time instances. These replacements…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Renato Vizuete , Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Julien M. Hendrickx , Paolo Frasca , Elena Panteley

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

We study the joint scheduling of behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), including flexible loads, renewable generation, and battery energy storage systems, under net energy metering tariffs with demand charges. The problem is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Ruixiao Yang , Gulai Shen , Ahmed S. Alahmed , Chuchu Fan

This paper studies an online optimal resource reservation problem in communication networks with job transfers where the goal is to minimize the reservation cost while maintaining the blocking cost under a certain budget limit. To tackle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Amirhossein Asgharnia

In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma , Jens Schulz , Andreas Wiese

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

This paper studies a scheduling problem in a parallel machine setting, where each machine must adhere to a predetermined fixed order for processing the jobs. Given $n$ jobs, each with processing times and deadlines, we aim to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andre Berger , Arman Rouhani , Marc Schröder