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Nowadays, logistics service providers (LSPs) increasingly consider using a crowdsourced workforce on the last mile to fulfill customers' expectations regarding same-day or on-demand delivery at reduced costs. The crowdsourced workforce's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Julius Luy , Gerhard Hiermann , Maximilian Schiffer

Consider a set of jobs with independent random service times to be scheduled on a single machine. The jobs can be surgeries in an operating room, patients' appointments in outpatient clinics, etc. The challenge is to determine the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Mehdi Jafarnia-Jahromi , Rahul Jain

Increasing data volumes in scientific experiments necessitate the use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources for data analysis. In many scientific fields, the data generated from scientific instruments and supercomputer simulations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sam Nickolay , Eun-Sung Jung , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

In this paper I have study to Reduce the time Complexity of Earliest Deadline First (EDF), a global scheduling scheme for Earliest Deadline First in Real Time System tasks on a Multiprocessors system. Several admission control algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Jagbeer Singh

Cloud-based computing infrastructure provides an efficient means to support real-time processing workloads, e.g., virtualized base station processing, and collaborative video conferencing. This paper addresses resource allocation for a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Yuhuan Du , Gustavo de Veciana

Despite existing work in machine learning inference serving, ease-of-use and cost efficiency remain challenges at large scales. Developers must manually search through thousands of model-variants -- versions of already-trained models that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Francisco Romero , Qian Li , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Christos Kozyrakis

We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs arriving one by one, to be assigned to two identical machines, with the goal of makespan minimization. We study the effect of selecting the best solution out of two independent solutions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Leah Epstein

Consider a set of jobs connected to a directed acyclic task graph with a fixed source and sink. The edges of this graph model precedence constraints and the jobs have to be scheduled with respect to those. We introduce the Server Cloud…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Marten Maack , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Simon Pukrop

Network softwarization is one of the major paradigm shifts in the next generation of networks. It enables programmable and flexible management and deployment of the network. Network function virtualization (NFV) is referred to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Vahid Shah-Mansouri , Dusit Niyato

We study a two-type server queueing system where flexible Type-I servers, upon their initial interaction with jobs, decide in real time whether to process them independently or in collaboration with dedicated Type-II servers. Independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Shuwen Lu , Mark E. Lewis , Jamol Pender

In this study, we consider multi-class multi-server asymmetric queueing systems consisting of $N$ queues on one side and $K$ servers on the other side, where jobs randomly arrive in queues at each time. The service rate of each job-server…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-07 Jung-hun Kim , Min-hwan Oh

Federated learning (FL) systems enable multiple clients to train a machine learning model iteratively through synchronously exchanging the intermediate model weights with a single server. The scalability of such FL systems can be limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuncong Zuo , Bart Cox , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

We consider a stochastic, dynamic job scheduling problem, formulated as a queueing control problem, in which a single server processes jobs of different types that arrive according to independent Poisson processes. The problem is defined on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Dongnuan Tian , Rob Shone

Load balancing systems, comprising a central dispatcher and a scheduling policy at each server, are widely used in practice, and their response time has been extensively studied in the theoretical literature. While much is known about the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Isaac Grosof , Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

Distributed filesystem metadata updates are typically synchronous. This creates inherent challenges for access efficiency, load balancing, and directory contention, especially under dynamic and skewed workloads. This paper argues that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingwei Xu , Mingkai Dong , Qiulin Tian , Ziyi Tian , Tong Xin , Haibo Chen

FPGAs are an attractive type of accelerator for all-purpose HPC computing systems due to the possibility of deploying tailored hardware on demand. However, the common tools for programming and operating FPGAs are still complex to use,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal , Nick Brown , Yuri Torres , Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano

We study distributed load balancing in bipartite queueing systems where frontends route jobs to heterogeneous backends with workload-dependent service rates. The system's connectivity -- governed by compatibility constraints such as data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wenxin Zhang , Santiago R. Balseiro , Robert Kleinberg , Vahab Mirrokni , Balasubramanian Sivan , Bartek Wydrowski

The maximum possible throughput (or the rate of job completion) of a multi-server system is typically the sum of the service rates of individual servers. Recent work shows that launching multiple replicas of a job and canceling them as soon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gauri Joshi , Dhruva Kaushal

Serverless computing has seen rapid growth due to the ease-of-use and cost-efficiency it provides. However, function scheduling, a critical component of serverless systems, has been overlooked. In this paper, we take a first-principles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kostis Kaffes , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Christos Kozyrakis

In many service systems, especially those in healthcare, customer waiting times can result in increased service requirements. Such service slowdowns can significantly impact system performance. Therefore, it is important to properly account…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Jing Dong , Berk Görgülü , Vahid Sarhangian