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We consider a load balancing model where a Poisson stream of jobs arrive at a system of many servers whose service time distribution possesses a finite second moment. A small fraction of arrivals pass through the so called power-of-choice…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Rami Atar , Gershon Wolansky

The Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) load-balancing scheme is known to minimise the average delay of jobs in homogeneous systems consisting of identical servers. However, it performs poorly in heterogeneous systems where servers have different…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Sanidhay Bhambay , Arpan Mukhopadhyay

In parallel-server systems with a single stream of arrivals (a.k.a. load balancing), Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) is a popular routing algorithm. There is extensive literature studying this system in various asymptotic regimes, but all…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniela Hurtado-Lange , Izzy Grosof

We consider a load balancing system consisting of $n$ single-server queues working in parallel, with heterogeneous service rates. Jobs arrive to a central dispatcher, which has to dispatch them to one of the queues immediately upon arrival.…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yishun Luo , Martin Zubeldia

We consider a system of $N$ parallel single-server queues with unit exponential service rates and a single dispatcher where tasks arrive as a Poisson process of rate $\lambda(N)$. When a task arrives, the dispatcher assigns it to a server…

Nowadays, the efficiency and even the feasibility of traditional load-balancing policies are challenged by the rapid growth of cloud infrastructure and the increasing levels of server heterogeneity. In such heterogeneous systems with many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Shay Vargaftik , Isaac Keslassy , Ariel Orda

With the rapid development in wide area networks and low cost, powerful computational resources, grid computing has gained its popularity. With the advent of grid computing, space limitations of conventional distributed systems can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Dushyant Vaghela

We address the problem of giving robust performance bounds based on the study of the asymptotic behavior of the insensitive load balancing schemes when the number of servers and the load scales jointly. These schemes have the desirable…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Matthieu Jonckheere , Balakrishna Prabhu

In this paper, we analyze the performance of random load resampling and migration strategies in parallel server systems. Clients initially attach to an arbitrary server, but may switch server independently at random instants of time in an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-12 A. Ganesh , S. Lilienthal , D. Manjunath , A. Proutiere , F. Simatos

We analyze randomized dynamic load balancing schemes for multi-server processor sharing systems when the number of servers in the system is large and the servers have heterogeneous service rates. In particular, we focus on the classical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Arpan Mukhopadhyay , Ravi R. Mazumdar

For popular websites most important concern is to handle incoming load dynamically among web servers, so that they can respond to their client without any wait or failure. Different websites use different strategies to distribute load among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Ms. Deepti Sharma , Ms. Archana B. Saxena

Randomized load balancing networks arise in a variety of applications, and allow for efficient sharing of resources, while being relatively easy to implement. We consider a network of parallel queues in which incoming jobs with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Reza Aghajani , Kavita Ramanan

In this paper, we consider a queueing network with $N$ nodes, each of which has a fixed number $k$ of neighboring nodes, referred to as the $N$ node network with local balancing. We assume that to each of the $N$ nodes, an incoming job (or…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Qihui Bu , Liwei Liu , Yiqiang Q. Zhao

Most load balancing techniques implemented in current data centers tend to rely on a mapping from packets to server IP addresses through a hash value calculated from the flow five-tuple. The hash calculation allows extremely fast packet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Qingkai Liang , Sem Borst

Mean field limits are an important tool in the context of large-scale dynamical systems, in particular, when studying multiagent and interacting particle systems. While the continuous-time theory is well-developed, few works have considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

For algorithms based on interacting particle systems that admit a mean-field description, convergence analysis is often more accessible at the mean-field level. In order to transfer convergence results obtained at the mean-field level to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Urbain Vaes

This paper studies load balancing for many-server ($N$ servers) systems. Each server has a buffer of size $b-1,$ and can have at most one job in service and $b-1$ jobs in the buffer. The service time of a job follows the Coxian-2…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Xin Liu , Kang Gong , Lei Ying

Oscillator networks with an asymmetric bipolar distribution of natural frequencies are useful representations of power grids. We propose a mean-field model that captures the onset, form and linear stability of frequency synchronization in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-30 Stefan Wieland , Simone Blanco Malerba , Sébastien Aumaitre , Hervé Bercegol

We present an analysis of large-scale load balancing systems, where the processing time distribution of tasks depends on both the task and server types. Our study focuses on the asymptotic regime, where the number of servers and task types…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Zhisheng Zhao , Debankur Mukherjee

Queueing networks are systems of theoretical interest that find widespread use in the performance evaluation of interconnected resources. In comparison to counterpart models in genetics or mathematical biology, the stochastic (jump)…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-28 Iker Perez , Giuliano Casale