We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
We consider the problem of maximizing capacity in a queueing network with flexible servers, where the classes and servers are subject to failure. We assume that the interarrival ...
This paper proposes a new scheduling policy for cluster-based servers called DAS (Deferred Assignment Scheduling). The main idea in DAS is to defer scheduling as much as possible,...
Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed, Michael N. K...
A VOD server handles various types of media such as continuous media (CM) and non-continuous media (NM). Conventional VOD server buffer scheduling algorithms like Round Robin (RR)...