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Optimization in distributed networks plays a central role in almost all distributed machine learning problems. In principle, the use of distributed task allocation has reduced the computational time, allowing better response rates and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Elie Atallah , Nazanin Rahnavard , Chinwendu Enyioha

In this paper, we consider a class of sensor networks where the data is not required in real-time by an observer; for example, a sensor network monitoring a scientific phenomenon for later play back and analysis. In such networks, the data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sameer Tilak , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Wendi Heinzelman

We present a new method for scaling automatic configuration of computer networks. The key idea is to relax the computationally hard search problem of finding a configuration that satisfies a given specification into an approximate objective…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Luca Beurer-Kellner , Martin Vechev , Laurent Vanbever , Petar Veličković

The need for scalable concurrent ordered set data structures with linearizable range query support is increasing due to the rise of multicore computers, data processing platforms and in-memory databases. This paper presents a new concurrent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kjell Winblad

NoSQL databases are widely used in modern applications due to their scalability and schema flexibility, yet they often rely on eventual consistency models that limit reliable transaction processing. This study proposes a four-stage…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Adam A. E. Alflahi , Mohammed A. Y. Mohammed , Abdallah Alsammani

Distributed machine learning is becoming increasingly popular for geo-distributed data analytics, facilitating the collaborative analysis of data scattered across data centers in different regions. This paradigm eliminates the need for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zonghang Li , Wenjiao Feng , Weibo Cai , Hongfang Yu , Long Luo , Gang Sun , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato

We develop a Markovian framework for load balancing that combines classical algorithms such as Power-of-$d$ with auto-scaling mechanisms that allow the net service capacity to scale up or down in response to the current load on the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jonatha Anselmi

Powerline communication (PLC) provides inexpensive, secure and high speed network connectivity, by leveraging the existing power distribution networks inside the buildings. While PLC technology has the potential to improve connectivity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Kamran Ali , Ioannis Pefkianakis , Alex X. Liu , Kyu-Han Kim

Large-scale online ride-sharing platforms have substantially transformed our lives by reallocating transportation resources to alleviate traffic congestion and promote transportation efficiency. An efficient fleet management strategy not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Kaixiang Lin , Renyu Zhao , Zhe Xu , Jiayu Zhou

This paper presents Block, a distributed scheduling framework designed to optimize load balancing and auto-provisioning across instances in large language model serving frameworks by leveraging contextual information from incoming requests.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Wei Da , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) allows applications to transparently use all available network interfaces by creating a TCP subflow per interface. One critical component of MPTCP is the scheduler that decides which subflow to use for each packet.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Tanya Shreedhar , Nitinder Mohan , Sanjit K. Kaul , Jussi Kangasharju

Network design, a cornerstone of mathematical optimization, is about defining the main characteristics of a network satisfying requirements on connectivity, capacity, and level-of-service. It finds applications in logistics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

Datacenter network design plays a critical role in AI training by supporting scaling to thousands of accelerators. An open problem, designing a near-optimal throughput oriented network-topology, routing, and collectives-has not been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Conor James Green , Mithuna Thottethodi

The worlds of computing, communication, and storage have for a long time been treated separately, and even the recent trends of cloud computing, distributed computing, and mobile edge computing have not fundamentally changed the role of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

Network performance problems are notoriously difficult to diagnose. Prior profiling systems collect performance statistics by keeping information about each network flow, but maintaining per-flow state is not scalable on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Zaoxing Liu , Samson Zhou , Ori Rottenstreich , Vladimir Braverman , Jennifer Rexford

The interconnected smart devices and industrial internet of things devices require low-latency communication to fulfill control objectives despite limited resources. In essence, such devices have a time-critical nature but also require a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Stefan Roth , Yasemin Karacora , Christina Chaccour , Aydin Sezgin , Walid Saad

String sorting is an important part of tasks such as building index data structures. Unfortunately, current string sorting algorithms do not scale to massively parallel distributed-memory machines since they either have latency (at least)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Florian Kurpicz , Pascal Mehnert , Peter Sanders , Matthias Schimek

The state-of-the-art topologies of datacenter networks are fixed, based on electrical switching technology, and by now, we understand their throughput and cost well. For the past years, researchers have been developing novel optical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Griner , Chen Avin

The impact of transformer networks is booming, yet, they come with significant computational complexity. It is therefore essential to understand how to optimally map and execute these networks on modern neural processor hardware. So far,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Steven Colleman , Arne Symons , Victor J. B. Jung , Marian Verhelst

MapReduce is a commonly used framework for executing data-intensive jobs on distributed server clusters. We introduce a variant implementation of MapReduce, namely "Coded MapReduce", to substantially reduce the inter-server communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr