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Traffic load-balancing in datacenters alleviates hot spots and improves network utilization. In this paper, a stable in-network load-balancing algorithm is developed in the setting of software-defined networking. A control plane configures…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Sucha Supittayapornpong , Michael J. Neely

Low-latency communication has recently attracted considerable attention owing to its potential of enabling delay-sensitive services in next-generation industrial cyber-physical systems. To achieve target average or maximum delay given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lintao Li , Wei Chen

The rapid expansion of AI inference services in the cloud necessitates a robust scalability solution to manage dynamic workloads and maintain high performance. This study proposes a comprehensive scalability optimization framework for cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yihong Jin , Ze Yang

Heterogeneity is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in modern large-scale computer systems. Developing good load balancing policies for systems whose resources have varying speeds is crucial in achieving low response times. Indeed, how best…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kristen Gardner , Jazeem Abdul Jaleel , Alexander Wickeham , Sherwin Doroudi

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

"Geographic Load Balancing" is a strategy for reducing the energy cost of data centers spreading across different terrestrial locations. In this paper, we focus on load balancing among micro-datacenters powered by renewable energy sources.…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Giovanni Neglia , Matteo Sereno , Giuseppe Bianchi

We introduce a general framework for the mean-field analysis of large-scale load-balancing networks with general service distributions. Specifically, we consider a parallel server network that consists of N queues and operates under the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Reza Aghajani , Xingjie Li , Kavita Ramanan

Traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms are not scalable to environments with more than a few agents, since these algorithms are exponential in the number of agents. Recent research has introduced successful methods to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian , Matthew E. Taylor , Mark Crowley , Pascal Poupart

Network load balancers are central components in data centers, that distributes workloads across multiple servers and thereby contribute to offering scalable services. However, when load balancers operate in dynamic environments with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhiyuan Yao , Zihan Ding , Thomas Heide Clausen

While sparse attention mitigates the computational bottleneck of long-context LLM training, its distributed training process exhibits extreme heterogeneity in both \textit{1)} sequence length and \textit{2)} sparsity sensitivity, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hongtao Xu , Jianchao Tan , Yuxuan Hu , Pengju Lu , Hongyu Wang , Pingwei Sun , Yerui Sun , Yuchen Xie , Xunliang Cai , Mingzhen Li , Weile Jia

We present an overview of scalable load balancing algorithms which provide favorable delay performance in large-scale systems, and yet only require minimal implementation overhead. Aimed at a broad audience, the paper starts with an…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Mark van der Boor , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Debankur Mukherjee

We investigate reinforcement learning in the setting of Markov decision processes for a large number of exchangeable agents interacting in a mean field manner. Applications include, for example, the control of a large number of robots…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

A fundamental challenge in large-scale cloud networks and data centers is to achieve highly efficient server utilization and limit energy consumption, while providing excellent user-perceived performance in the presence of uncertain and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Debankur Mukherjee , Souvik Dhara , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Load balancing algorithms play critical roles in systems where the workload has to be distributed across multiple resources, such as cores in multiprocessor system, computers in distributed computing, and network links. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Shafinaz Islam

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

Although real-world complex systems typically interact through sparse and heterogeneous networks, analytic solutions of their dynamics are limited to models with all-to-all interactions. Here, we solve the dynamics of a broad range of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-28 Fernando L. Metz

An important class of cyber-physical systems relies on multiple agents that jointly perform a task by coordinating their actions over a wireless network. Examples include self-driving cars in intelligent transportation and production robots…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Fabian Mager , Dominik Baumann , Carsten Herrmann , Sebastian Trimpe , Marco Zimmerling

Training a sparse neural network from scratch requires optimizing connections at the same time as the weights themselves. Typically, the weights are redistributed after a predefined number of weight updates, removing a fraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mathias Parger , Alexander Ertl , Paul Eibensteiner , Joerg H. Mueller , Martin Winter , Markus Steinberger

This paper is a quantitative analysis on packet switched network with a view to generalize load balancing and determination of appropriate routing algorithm in multipath environment. Several routing algorithms have been introduced for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali , Rajib Chakraborty , Md. Shihabul Alam , Edward Chan

Large robot fleets are now common in warehouses and other logistics settings, where small control gains translate into large operational impacts. In this article, we address task scheduling for lifelong Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Johannes Gaber , Meshal Alharbi , Daniele Gammelli , Gioele Zardini