Near Delay-Optimal Scheduling of Batch Jobs in Multi-Server Systems
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چکیده
We study a class of scheduling problems, where each job is divided into a batch of unit-size tasks and these tasks can be executed in parallel on multiple servers with New-Better-than-Used (NBU) service time distributions. While many delay optimality results are available for single-server queueing systems, generalizing these results to the multi-server case has been challenging. This motivated us to investigate near delay-optimal scheduling of batch jobs in multi-server queueing systems. We consider three lowcomplexity scheduling policies: the Fewest Unassigned Tasks first (FUT) policy, the Earliest Due Date first (EDD) policy, and the First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) policy. We prove that for arbitrary number, batch sizes, arrival times, and due times of the jobs, these scheduling policies are near delay-optimal in stochastic ordering for minimizing three classes of delay metrics among all causal and non-preemptive policies. In particular, the FUT policy is within a constant additive delay gap from the optimum for minimizing the mean average delay, and the FCFS policy within twice of the optimum for minimizing the mean maximum delay and the mean p-norm of delay. The key proof tools are several novel samplepath orderings, which can be used to compare the sample-path delay of different policies in a near-optimal sense.
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