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We study the conditional sojourn time distributions of processor sharing (PS), foreground background processor sharing (FBPS) and shortest remaining processing time first (SRPT) scheduling disciplines on an event where the job size of a…

Performance · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Predrag R. Jelenkovic , Xiaozhu Kang , Jian Tan

The efficient scheduling of multi-task jobs across multiprocessor systems has become increasingly critical with the rapid expansion of computational systems. This challenge, known as Multiprocessor Multitask Scheduling (MPMS), is essential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wenxin Li

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

We study the asymptotic response time tail in the M/G/n multi-server queue with heavy-tailed (regularly varying) job sizes, a setting representative of modern computing workloads. For single-server systems, tail optimization is well…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhouzi Li , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

Modern data center workloads are composed of multiserver jobs, computational jobs that require multiple servers in order to run. A data center server can run many multiserver jobs in parallel, as long as it has sufficient resources to meet…

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

Unexpected increases in demand and most of all flash crowds are considered the bane of every web application as they may cause intolerable delays or even service unavailability. Proper quality of service policies must guarantee rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-01-29 Novella Bartolini , Giancarlo Bongiovanni , Simone Silvestri

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising paradigm to improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices. Nevertheless, the design of computation task scheduling policies for MEC systems inevitably encounters a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juan Liu , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

We consider the problem of scheduling to minimize mean response time in M/G/1 queues where only estimated job sizes (processing times) are known to the scheduler, where a job of true size $s$ has estimated size in the interval $[\beta s,…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Ziv Scully , Isaac Grosof , Michael Mitzenmacher

We consider a discrete-time parallel service system consisting of $n$ heterogeneous single server queues with infinite capacity. Jobs arrive to the system as an i.i.d. process with rate proportional to $n$, and must be immediately…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yishun Luo , Martin Zubeldia

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) refers to the concept of placing computational capability and applications at the edge of the network, providing benefits such as reduced latency in handling client requests, reduced network congestion, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Anirudha Jitani , Aditya Mahajan , Zhongwen Zhu , Hatem Abou-zeid , Emmanuel T. Fapi , Hakimeh Purmehdi

We aim to maximize the energy efficiency, gauged as average energy cost per job, in a large-scale server farm with various storage or/and computing components modeled as parallel abstracted servers. Each server operates in multiple power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Jing Fu , Xinyu Wang , Zengfu Wang , Moshe Zukerman

We study a class of scheduling problems, where each job is divided into a batch of unit-size tasks and these tasks can be executed in parallel on multiple servers with New-Better-than-Used (NBU) service time distributions. While many delay…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yin Sun , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

In simultaneous translation (SimulMT), the most widely used strategy is the wait-k policy thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness in balancing translation quality and latency. However, wait-k suffers from two major limitations: (a) it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangxu Xun , Mingbo Ma , Yuchen Bian , Xingyu Cai , Jiaji Huang , Renjie Zheng , Junkun Chen , Jiahong Yuan , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

Multiserver jobs, which are jobs that occupy multiple servers simultaneously during service, are prevalent in today's computing clusters. But little is known about the delay performance of systems with multiserver jobs. We consider queueing…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yige Hong , Weina Wang

Multi-server queueing systems are widely used models for job scheduling in machine learning, wireless networks, crowdsourcing, and healthcare systems. This paper considers a multi-server system with multiple servers and multiple types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zixian Yang , R. Srikant , Lei Ying

Multi-turn interaction remains challenging for online reinforcement learning. A common solution is trajectory-level optimization, which treats each trajectory as a single training sample. However, this approach can be inefficient and yield…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuhan Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Long Zhang , Pengzhi Gao , Jian Luan , Wei Liu

It is well known that size-based scheduling policies, which take into account job size (i.e., the time it takes to run them), can perform very desirably in terms of both response time and fairness. Unfortunately, the requirement of knowing…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Matteo Dell'Amico

We study online task allocation for multi-robot, multi-queue systems with stochastic arrivals and switching delays. Time is slotted; each location can host at most one robot per slot; service consumes one slot; switching between locations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mohammad Merati , David Castañón

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