A deep reinforcement learning approach to the optimization of data center task scheduling

H Che, Z Bai, R Zuo, H Li - Complexity, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With more businesses are running online, the scale of data centers is increasing
dramatically. The task‐scheduling operation with traditional heuristic algorithms is facing the …

An improved bound for minimizing the total weighted completion time of coflows in datacenters

M Shafiee, J Ghaderi - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In data-parallel computing frameworks, intermediate parallel data is often produced at
various stages which needs to be transferred among servers in the datacenter network (eg …

Scheduling coflows of multi-stage jobs to minimize the total weighted job completion time

B Tian, C Tian, H Dai, B Wang - IEEE INFOCOM 2018-IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenter networks are critical to Cloud computing. The coflow abstraction is a major leap
forward of application-aware network scheduling. In the context of multistage jobs, there are …

A survey of big data machine learning applications optimization in cloud data centers and networks

SH Mohamed, TEH El-Gorashi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This survey article reviews the challenges associated with deploying and optimizing big data
applications and machine learning algorithms in cloud data centers and networks. The …

Efficient file dissemination in data center networks with priority-based adaptive multicast

S Luo, H Yu, K Li, H Xing - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In today's data center networks (DCN), cloud applications commonly disseminate files from a
single source to a group of receivers for service deployment, data replication, software …

Efficient scheduling of weighted coflows in data centers

Z Wang, H Zhang, X Shi, X Yin, Y Li… - … on Parallel and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional network resource management mechanisms are mainly flow or packet based.
Recently, coflow has been proposed as a new abstraction to capture the communication …

On scheduling coflows

S Ahmadi, S Khuller, M Purohit, S Yang - Algorithmica, 2020 - Springer
Applications designed for data-parallel computation frameworks such as MapReduce
usually alternate between computation and communication stages. Coflow scheduling is a …

MOSC: A method to assign the outsourcing of service function chain across multiple clouds

H Chen, X Wang, Y Zhao, T Song, Y Wang, S Xu, L Li - Computer Networks, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract As Network Function Virtualization (NFV) becomes reality and cloud computing
offers a scalable pay-as-you-go charging model, more network operators would like to …

Near optimal coflow scheduling in networks

M Chowdhury, S Khuller, M Purohit, S Yang… - The 31st ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The coflow scheduling problem has emerged as a popular abstraction in the last few years
to study data communication problems within a data center [6]. In this basic framework, each …

A survey of coflow scheduling schemes for data center networks

S Wang, J Zhang, T Huang, J Liu… - IEEE Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cluster computing applications, such as MapReduce and Spark, have been widely
deployed in data centers to support commercial applications and scientific research. These …