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This paper introduces for the first time a framework to obtain provable worst-case guarantees for neural network performance, using learning for optimal power flow (OPF) problems as a guiding example. Neural networks have the potential to…
High percentage penetrations of renewable energy generations introduce significant uncertainty into power systems. It requires grid operators to solve alternative current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems more frequently for economical…
This paper addresses the problem of worst-case timing analysis of heterogeneous wormhole NoCs, i.e., routers with different buffer sizes and transmission speeds, when consecutive packet queuing (CPQ) occurs. The latter means that there are…
We study how the choice of packet scheduling algorithms influences end-to-end performance on long network paths. Taking a network calculus approach, we consider both deterministic and statistical performance metrics. A key enabling…
Steady-state solutions for a variety of relevant queueing systems are known today, e.g., from queueing theory, effective bandwidths, and network calculus. The behavior during transient phases, on the other hand, is understood to a much…
We consider the problem of scheduling non preemptively a set of jobs on parallel identical machines with prior setup operations on a single shared server, where the objective is to minimise the makespan. We develop an arc-flow formulation…
Throughput is a main performance objective in communication networks. This paper considers a fundamental maximum throughput routing problem -- the all-or-nothing multicommodity flow (ANF) problem -- in arbitrary directed graphs and in the…
We provide upper bounds on the end-to-end backlog and delay in a network with heavy-tailed and self-similar traffic. The analysis follows a network calculus approach where traffic is characterized by envelope functions and service is…
We present an $m^{4/3+o(1)}\log W$-time algorithm for solving the minimum cost flow problem in graphs with unit capacity, where $W$ is the maximum absolute value of any edge weight. For sparse graphs, this improves over the best known…
The past century of telecommunications has shown that failures in networks are prevalent. Although much has been done to prevent failures, network nodes and links are bound to fail eventually. Failure recovery processes are therefore…
Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm for heterogeneous devices to collaborate on edge computation jobs. For congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…
Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…
Scientific workflows are pipelines of interdependent tasks. They are increasingly executed on shared Kubernetes clusters via workflow engines such as Nextflow. Their energy consumption matters for both cost and sustainability. It is…
We consider traffic flow dynamics for a network of signalized intersections, where the outflow from every link is constrained to be equal to a given capacity function if the queue length is positive, and equal to the minimum of cumulative…
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…
Modern LLM GPU fleets are provisioned for worst-case context lengths that the vast majority of requests never approach, wasting GPU capacity on idle KV-cache slots. We present FleetOpt, a framework that starts from first principles: given a…
We develop a robust queueing network analyzer algorithm to approximate the steady-state performance of a single-class open queueing network of single-server queues with Markovian routing. The algorithm allows non-renewal external arrival…
Millions of flows are routed concurrently through a modern data-center. These networks are often built as Clos topologies, and flow demands are constrained only by the link capacities at the ingress and egress points. The minimum congestion…
Macroscopic traffic models are necessary for simulation and study of traffic's complex macro-scale dynamics, and are often used by practitioners for road network planning, integrated corridor management, and other applications. These models…
The All-Pairs Min-Cut problem (aka All-Pairs Max-Flow) asks to compute a minimum $s$-$t$ cut (or just its value) for all pairs of vertices $s,t$. We study this problem in directed graphs with unit edge/vertex capacities (corresponding to…