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This paper studies the problem of scheduling in single-hop wireless networks with real-time traffic, where every packet arrival has an associated deadline and a minimum fraction of packets must be transmitted before the end of the deadline.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Juan Jose Jaramillo , R. Srikant , Lei Ying

With the rapid proliferation of streaming services, network load exhibits highly time-varying and bursty behavior, posing serious challenges for maintaining Quality of Service (QoS) in Crowdsourced Cloud-Edge Platforms (CCPs). While CCPs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tiancheng Zhang , Cheng Zhang , Shuren Liu , Xiaofei Wang , Shaoyuan Huang , Wenyu Wang

We study online resource allocation in a cloud computing platform, through a posted pricing mechanism: The cloud provider publishes a unit price for each resource type, which may vary over time; upon arrival at the cloud system, a cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Zijun Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Chuan Wu

Scheduling is important in Edge computing. In contrast to the Cloud, Edge resources are hardware limited and cannot support workload-driven infrastructure scaling. Hence, resource allocation and scheduling for the Edge requires a fresh…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Arkadiusz Madej , Nan Wang , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos , Rajiv Ranjan , Blesson Varghese

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

Today's cloud infrastructure landscape offers a broad range of services to build and operate software applications. The myriad of options, however, has also brought along a new layer of complexity. When it comes to procuring cloud computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Maximilian Kiessler , Valentin Haag , Benedikt Pittl , Erich Schikuta

In this paper we consider multiple constrained resource allocation problems, where the constraints can be specified by formulating activity dependency restrictions or by using game-theoretic models. All the problems are focused on generic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Costel Visan

We study a difficult problem of how to schedule complex workflows with precedence constraints under a limited budget in the cloud environment. We first formulate the scheduling problem as an integer programming problem, which can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hang Zhang , Xiaoying Zheng , Ye Xia , Mingqi Li

The problem of online packet scheduling to minimize the required conventional grid energy for transmitting a fixed number of packets given a common deadline is considered. The total number of packets arriving within the deadline is known,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Aditya Deshmukh , Rahul Vaze

Cloud users aim to minimize cost while maximizing performance by selecting the most suitable instance types for their workloads. To reduce expenses, spot instances have been widely adopted due to their steep discounts compared to on-demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Taeyoon Kim , Kyumin Kim , Enrique Molina-Giménez , Pedro García-López , Kyungyong Lee

In heterogeneous distributed computing (HC) systems, diversity can exist in both computational resources and arriving tasks. In an inconsistently heterogeneous computing system, task types have different execution times on heterogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 James Gentry , Chavit Denninnart , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

Cloud computing offers a variable-cost payment scheme that allows cloud customers to specify the price they are willing to pay for renting spot instances to run their applications at much lower costs than fixed payment schemes, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Abdullah Alourani , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani

We propose integrating the edge-computing paradigm into the multi-robot collaborative scheduling to maximize resource utilization for complex collaborative tasks, which many robots must perform together. Examples include collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Virtualization technology has enabled applications to be decoupled from the underlying hardware providing the benefits of portability, better control over execution environment and isolation. It has been widely adopted in scientific grids…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Omer Khalid , Ivo Maljevic , Richard Anthony , Miltos Petridis , Kevin Parrot , Markus Schulz

In this paper, we study an optimal online resource reservation problem in a simple communication network. The network is composed of two compute nodes linked by a local communication link. The system operates in discrete time; at each time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Shima Kheradmand

Realizing an optimal task scheduling by taking into account the business importance of jobs has become a matter of interest in pay and use model of Cloud computing. Introduction of an appropriate model for an efficient task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Vivek Sharma , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

Cloud-based computing systems could get oversubscribed due to budget constraints of cloud users which causes violation of Quality of Experience(QoE) metrics such as tasks' deadlines. We investigate an approach to achieve robustness against…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Chavit Denninnart , Mohsen Amini Salehi , Adel Nadjaran Toosi , Xiangbo Li

The utilization of cloud environments to deploy scientific workflow applications is an emerging trend in scientific community. In this area, the main issue is the scheduling of workflows, which is known as an NP-complete problem. Apart from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-17 J. E. Ndamlabin Mboula , V. C. Kamla , M. H. Hilman , C. Tayou Djamegni

We study the dynamic power optimization problem in data centers. We formulate and solve the following offline problem: in which slot which server has to be assigned to which job; and in which slot which server has to be switched ON or OFF…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Cengis Hasan , Zygmunt J. Haas