[HTML][HTML] Queuing models of links carrying streaming and elastic services

A Marin, MA Marsan, M Meo, M Sereno - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider an access link carrying data generated by streaming and elastic services
requested by fixed or mobile end users, and subjected to an admission control (AC) …

Optimal Scheduling in Multiserver Queues

I Grosof - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Scheduling theory is a key tool for reducing latency (ie response time) in queueing systems.
Scheduling, ie choosing the order in which to serve jobs, can reduce response time by an …

Steady-state convergence of the continuous-time JSQ system with general distributions in heavy traffic

JG Dai, J Guang, Y Xu - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Steady-State Convergence of the Continuous-Time JSQ System with General Distributions in
Heavy Traffic Page 1 Steady-State Convergence of the Continuous-Time JSQ System with …

Scheduling multi-server jobs is not easy

R Vaze - Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

The Impact of Service Demand Variability on Data Center Performance

D Olliaro, A Anggraito, MA Marsan… - … on Parallel and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern data centers feature an extensive array of cores that handle quite a diverse range of
jobs. Recent traces, shared by leading cloud data center enterprises like Google and …

Stochastic Approximation with Unbounded Markovian Noise: A General-Purpose Theorem

SU Haque, ST Maguluri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21704, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motivated by engineering applications such as resource allocation in networks and
inventory systems, we consider average-reward Reinforcement Learning with unbounded …

Analysis of Markovian Arrivals and Service with Applications to Intermittent Overload

I Grosof, Y Hong, M Harchol-Balter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04102, 2024 - arxiv.org
Almost all queueing analysis assumes iid arrivals and service. In reality, arrival and service
rates fluctuate over time. In particular, it is common for real systems to intermittently …

Analyzing Practical Policies for Multiresource Job Scheduling

Z Chen, I Grosof, B Berg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08915, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modern cloud computing workloads are composed of multiresource jobs that require a
variety of computational resources in order to run, such as CPU cores, memory, disk space …

Quality Competition Among Internet Service Providers

S Scherrer, S Tabaeiaghdaei, A Perrig - … Performance Evaluation Review, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Internet service providers (ISPs) have a variety of quality attributes that determine their
attractiveness for data transmission, ranging from quality-of-service metrics such as jitter to …

The RESET and MARC Techniques, with Application to Multiserver-Job Analysis

I Grosof, Y Hong, M Harchol-Balter… - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Multiserver-job (MSJ) systems, where jobs need to run concurrently across many servers,
are increasingly common in practice. The default service ordering in many settings is First …