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Title | ||
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Constrained Max-Min Fair Scheduling of Variable-Length Packet-Flows to Multiple Servers. |
Abstract | ||
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In this paper, we study a multi-server queuing system wherein each user is constrained to get service only from a specified subset of servers. Fair packet scheduling in such a setting poses novel challenges that we address in this paper. Specifically, we observe that max-min fair allocation of the available resource over different servers (notably bandwidth) in the presence of placement constraints results in different levels of fair service-rates. To achieve the max-min fair service rates, we propose a novel packet scheduler which is inspired by the deficit-round robin (DRR) algorithm. The scheduler allocates tokens to flows in a round-by-round manner, where token allocation to flows at the beginning of each round is weighted max-min fair. So, we have called it multi-server max-min fair DRR (MSMF-DRR). The performance of the MSMF-DRR algorithm in terms of achieving fairness is shown through a worst-case performance analysis. In addition to analytical results, numerical experiments are also carried out to illustrate service isolation and the delay guarantee that are provided by the algorithm. Generally, a scheduler for such a constrained multi-server queuing system can be applicable in many modern data-networking applications, especially in cloud computing wherein virtual machines and/or processes vie for different IT resources distributed over heterogenous servers, while different processes may have preferences over servers owing to their quality-of-service requirements and the heterogeneity of servers. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1007/s12243-017-0599-y | Annales des Télécommunications |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Packet scheduling,K-server algorithms,Placement constraints,Max-min fairness,Cloud computing,Resource allocation,Convex optimization | Journal | 73 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3-4 | 0003-4347 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 12 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jalal Khamse-Ashari | 1 | 2 | 0.72 |
| George Kesidis | 2 | 293 | 38.77 |
| Ioannis Lambadaris | 3 | 502 | 78.37 |
| Bhuvan Urgaonkar | 4 | 2309 | 158.10 |
| Yiqiang Q. Zhao | 5 | 233 | 28.56 |