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We consider a computation offloading system where jobs are processed sequentially at a local server followed by a higher-capacity cloud server. The system offers two service modes, differing in how the processing is split between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano

We consider multiuser scheduling in wireless networks with channel variations and flow-level dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the MaxWeight algorithm, which is throughput-optimal in networks with a fixed number users, fails to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Shihuan Liu , Lei Ying , R. Srikant

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

In many service systems, especially those in healthcare, customer waiting times can result in increased service requirements. Such service slowdowns can significantly impact system performance. Therefore, it is important to properly account…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Jing Dong , Berk Görgülü , Vahid Sarhangian

Modern data center workloads are composed of multiserver jobs, computational jobs that require multiple servers in order to run. A data center server can run many multiserver jobs in parallel, as long as it has sufficient resources to meet…

Modern cloud computing workloads are composed of multiresource jobs that require a variety of computational resources in order to run, such as CPU cores, memory, disk space, or hardware accelerators. A single cloud server can typically run…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Zhongrui Chen , Isaac Grosof , Benjamin Berg

Modern cloud computing workloads are composed of multiresource jobs that require a variety of computational resources in order to run, such as CPU cores, memory, disk space, or hardware accelerators. A single cloud server can typically run…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zhongrui Chen , Isaac Grosof , Benjamin Berg

We consider a discrete time stochastic queueing system where a controller makes a 2-stage decision every slot. The decision at the first stage reveals a hidden source of randomness with a control-dependent (but unknown) probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-05 Michael J. Neely

In this paper, we consider systems that can be modelled by $M \mid M \mid n$ queues with heterogeneous servers and non informed customers. Considering any two servers: we show that the probability that the fastest server is busy is smaller…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-06 Fabricio Bandeira Cabral

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

Nowadays large-scale distributed machine learning systems have been deployed to support various analytics and intelligence services in IT firms. To train a large dataset and derive the prediction/inference model, e.g., a deep neural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Yixin Bao , Yanghua Peng , Chuan Wu , Zongpeng Li

Queues with setup time are extensively studied because they have application in performance evaluation of power-saving data centers. In a data center, there are a huge number of servers which consume a large amount of energy. In the current…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tuan Phung-Duc

We study the steady-state delay performance of load balancing in large-scale systems with heterogeneous servers in the heavy-traffic regimes. The system consists of $N$ servers, each with a local buffer of size $b-1$, serving jobs in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Xin Liu , Lei Ying

We present a new online algorithm for profit-oriented scheduling on multiple speed-scalable processors. Moreover, we provide a tight analysis of the algorithm's competitiveness. Our results generalize and improve upon work by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Peter Kling , Peter Pietrzyk

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

Motivated by providing quality-of-service differentiated services in the Internet, we consider buffer management algorithms for network switches. We study a multi-buffer model. A network switch consists of multiple size-bounded buffers such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Fei Li

Our interest lies in load balancing jobs in large scale systems consisting of multiple dispatchers and FCFS servers. In the absence of any information on job sizes, dispatchers typically use queue length information reported by the servers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Tim Hellemans , Benny Van Houdt

We consider a server serving a time-slotted queued system of multiple packet-based flows, with exogenous packet arrivals and time-varying service rates. At each time, the server can observe instantaneous service rates for only a subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Aditya Gopalan , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai

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

When a computer system schedules jobs there is typically a significant cost associated with preempting a job during execution. This cost can be from the expensive task of saving the memory's state and loading data into and out of memory. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Giorgio Lucarelli , Benjamin Moseley , Nguyen Kim Thang , Abhinav Srivastav , Denis Trystram