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Collaborative edge computing has become a popular paradigm where edge devices collaborate by sharing resources. Data dissemination is a fundamental problem in CEC to decide what data is transmitted from which device and how. Existing works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yuvraj Sahni , Jiannong Cao , Lei Yang , Shengwei Wang

In the past decade, increasingly network scheduling techniques have been proposed to boost the distributed application performance. Flow-level metrics, such as flow completion time (FCT), are based on the abstraction of flows yet they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jiawei Fei , Yang Shi , Qun Huang , Mei Wen

Coflow scheduling improves data-intensive application performance by improving their networking performance. State-of-the-art Coflow schedulers in essence approximate the classic online Shortest-Job-First (SJF) scheduling, designed for a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Akshay Jajoo , Rohan Gandhi , Y. Charlie Hu , Cheng-Kok Koh

With the rapid transformation of computer hardware and algorithms, mobile networking has evolved from low data carrying capacity and high latency to better-optimized networks, either by enhancing the digital network or using different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wenbo Zhu

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Hyeonjoong Cho , Arvind Easwaran

Coflow has emerged as a fundamental application-layer abstraction in distributed systems, representing communication dependencies and enabling collaborative management of related flows to enhance job completion efficiency. To meet the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Ye Tao

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

The power consumption of enormous network devices in data centers has emerged as a big concern to data center operators. Despite many traffic-engineering-based solutions, very little attention has been paid on performance-guaranteed energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Lin Wang , Fa Zhang , Kai Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Shaolei Ren , Zhiyong Liu

Applications in data-parallel computing typically consist of multiple stages. In each stage, a set of intermediate parallel data flows (Coflow) is produced and transferred between servers to enable starting of next stage. While there has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Javad Ghaderi

Datacenter networks are currently locked in a "tyranny of the single objective". While modern workloads demand diverse performance goals, ranging from coflow completion times, per-flow fairness, short-flow latencies, existing fabrics are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sanjoli Narang , Anup Agarwal , Venkat Arun , Manya Ghobadi

Stream applications are widely deployed on the cloud. While modern distributed streaming systems like Flink and Spark Streaming can schedule and execute them efficiently, streaming dataflows are often dynamically changing, which may cause…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Pengqi Lu , Liang Yuan , Yunquan Zhang , Hang Cao , Kun Li

Coflow is a recently proposed networking abstraction to help improve the communication performance of data-parallel computing jobs. In multi-stage jobs, each job consists of multiple coflows and is represented by a Directed Acyclic Graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xin Wang , Hong Shen

Co-flows model a modern scheduling setting that is commonly found in a variety of applications in distributed and cloud computing. A stochastic co-flow task contains a set of parallel flows with randomly distributed sizes. Further, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Ruijiu Mao , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mung Chiang

We consider routing in reconfigurable networks, which is also known as coflow scheduling in the literature. The algorithmic literature generally (perhaps implicitly) assumes that the amount of data to be transferred is large. Thus the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alexander Lindermayr , Kirk Pruhs , Andréa W. Richa , Tegan Wilson

We consider the problem of designing a packet-level congestion control and scheduling policy for datacenter networks. Current datacenter networks primarily inherit the principles that went into the design of Internet, where congestion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Devavrat Shah , Qiaomin Xie

Today's data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency. However, fair sharing, a principle commonly adopted in current congestion control protocols, is far from optimal for satisfying latency requirements. We propose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Chi-Yao Hong , Matthew Caesar , P. Brighten Godfrey

Large cloud companies manage dozens of datacenters across the globe connected using dedicated inter-datacenter networks. An important application of these networks is data replication which is done for purposes such as increased resiliency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohammad Noormohammadpour , Cauligi S. Raghavendra

The coflow scheduling problem is considered: given an input/output switch with each port having a fixed capacity, find a scheduling algorithm that minimizes the weighted sum of the coflow completion times respecting the port capacities,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Akhil Bhimaraju , Debanuj Nayak , Rahul Vaze

The aim of this paper is to provide a description of deep-learning-based scheduling approach for academic-purpose high-performance computing systems. The share of academic-purpose distributed computing systems (DCS) reaches 17.4 percents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Andrey Gritsenko