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Modern computing workloads are often composed of parallelizable jobs. A parallelizable job can be completed more quickly when run on additional servers. However, each job can only use a limited number of servers, known as its…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Benjamin Berg , Benjamin Moseley , Weina Wang , Mor Harchol-Balter

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

We study a two-sided market, wherein, price-sensitive heterogeneous customers and servers arrive and join their respective queues. A compatible customer-server pair can then be matched by the platform, at which point, they leave the system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zixian Yang , Sushil Mahavir Varma , Lei Ying

Scheduling is important in Edge computing. In contrast to the Cloud, Edge resources are hardware limited and cannot support workload-driven infrastructure scaling. Hence, resource allocation and scheduling for the Edge requires a fresh…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Arkadiusz Madej , Nan Wang , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos , Rajiv Ranjan , Blesson Varghese

We consider online convex optimization (OCO) with multi-slot feedback delay, where an agent makes a sequence of online decisions to minimize the accumulation of time-varying convex loss functions, subject to short-term and long-term…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Juncheng Wang , Ben Liang , Min Dong , Gary Boudreau , Hatem Abou-zeid

Large-scale deep learning models contribute to significant performance improvements on varieties of downstream tasks. Current data and model parallelism approaches utilize model replication and partition techniques to support the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Youhe Jiang , Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Xiaonan Nie , Bin Cui

High Speed computing meets ever increasing real-time computational demands through the leveraging of flexibility and parallelism. The flexibility is achieved when computing platform designed with heterogeneous resources to support…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Mahendra Vucha , Arvind Rajawat

We study a variation of the canonical online resource allocation problem in which resources are throughput, rather than budget, constrained. As in the classical setting, the decision-maker must assign sequentially arriving jobs to one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Chamsi Hssaine , Huseyin Topaloglu , Garrett van Ryzin

Caching at the base stations brings the contents closer to the users, reduces the traffic through the backhaul links, and reduces the delay experienced by the cellular users. The cellular network operator may charge the content providers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Ammar Gharaibeh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji , Moussa Ayyash

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

Distributed learning platforms for processing large scale data-sets are becoming increasingly prevalent. In typical distributed implementations, a centralized master node breaks the data-set into smaller batches for parallel processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Mohamed Attia , Ravi Tandon

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

Consider a queueing system consisting of multiple servers. Jobs arrive over time and enter a queue for service; the goal is to minimize the size of this queue. At each opportunity for service, at most one server can be chosen, and at most…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Subhashini Krishnasamy , Rajat Sen , Ramesh Johari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

Effective multi-user delay-constrained scheduling is crucial in various real-world applications, such as instant messaging, live streaming, and data center management. In these scenarios, schedulers must make real-time decisions to satisfy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhuoran Li , Ruishuo Chen , Hai Zhong , Longbo Huang

Accurate network synchronization is a key enabler for services such as coherent transmission, cooperative decoding, and localization in distributed and cell-free networks. Unlike centralized networks, where synchronization is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Dieter Verbruggen , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

In federated learning (FL), it is commonly assumed that all data are placed at clients in the beginning of machine learning (ML) optimization (i.e., offline learning). However, in many real-world applications, it is expected to proceed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Dohyeok Kwon , Jonghwan Park , Songnam Hong

In instances of online kernel learning where little prior information is available and centralized learning is unfeasible, past research has shown that distributed and online multi-kernel learning provides sub-linear regret as long as every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tomas Ortega , Hamid Jafarkhani

As mobile edge computing (MEC) finds widespread use for relieving the computational burden of compute- and interaction-intensive applications on end user devices, understanding the resulting delay and cost performance is drawing significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

There is a growing interest in development of in-network dispersed computing paradigms that leverage the computing capabilities of heterogeneous resources dispersed across the network for processing massive amount of data is collected at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Chien-Sheng Yang , Ramtin Pedarsani , A. Salman Avestimehr