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Coflow is a network abstraction used to represent communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem encountered in large data centers is a challenging $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. This paper tackles the scheduling…
Coflow is a network abstraction used to represent communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem in large data centers is one of the most important $NP$-hard problems. Many previous studies on coflow scheduling mainly…
Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…
Coflow has emerged as a fundamental application-layer abstraction in distributed systems, representing communication dependencies and enabling collaborative management of related flows to enhance job completion efficiency. To meet the…
To improve the application-level communication performance, scheduling of coflows, a collection of parallel flows sharing the same objective, is prevalent in modern data center networks (DCNs). Meanwhile, a hybrid-switched DCN design…
Many modern datacenter applications involve large-scale computations composed of multiple data flows that need to be completed over a shared set of distributed resources. Such a computation completes when all of its flows complete. A useful…
Coflow is a recently proposed network abstraction to capture communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem in large data centers is one of the most important $NP$-hard problems. Previous research on coflow scheduling…
Coflow is a recently proposed network abstraction for data-parallel computing applications. This paper considers scheduling coflows with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, such as to minimize the total weighted…
This paper focuses on the problem of coflow scheduling with precedence constraints in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize…
With the rapid advancement of technology, parallel computing applications have become increasingly popular and are commonly executed in large data centers. These applications involve two phases: computation and communication, which are…
This paper addresses the scheduling problem of coflows in identical parallel networks, which is a well-known $NP$-hard problem. Coflow is a relatively new network abstraction used to characterize communication patterns in data centers. We…
The coflow scheduling problem has emerged as a popular abstraction in the last few years to study data communication problems within a data center. In this basic framework, each coflow has a set of communication demands and the goal is to…
In data-parallel computing frameworks, intermediate parallel data is often produced at various stages which needs to be transferred among servers in the datacenter network (e.g. the shuffle phase in MapReduce). A stage often cannot start or…
Modern data centers face new scheduling challenges in optimizing job-level performance objectives, where a significant challenge is the scheduling of highly parallel data flows with a common performance goal (e.g., the shuffle operations in…
Co-flows model a modern scheduling setting that is commonly found in a variety of applications in distributed and cloud computing. In co-flow scheduling, there are $m$ input ports and $m$ output ports. Each co-flow $j \in J$ can be…
This paper addresses the challenging scheduling problem of coflows with release times, with the objective of minimizing the total weighted completion time. Previous literature has predominantly concentrated on establishing the scheduling…
A coflow is a collection of parallel flows belonging to the same job. It has the all-or-nothing property: a coflow is not complete until the completion of all its constituent flows. In this paper, we focus on optimizing \emph{coflow-level…
Applications in data-parallel computing typically consist of multiple stages. In each stage, a set of intermediate parallel data flows (Coflow) is produced and transferred between servers to enable starting of next stage. While there has…
The coflow scheduling problem is considered: given an input/output switch with each port having a fixed capacity, find a scheduling algorithm that minimizes the weighted sum of the coflow completion times respecting the port capacities,…
Coflow scheduling models communication requests in parallel computing frameworks where multiple data flows between shared resources need to be completed before computation can continue. In this paper, we introduce Path-based Coflow…