Flexible queueing architectures

DOI10.1287/OPRE.2017.1620MaRDI QIDQ4598652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kuang Xu, John N. Tsitsiklis

Publication date 15 December 2017

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07648

zbMATH Keywords

queueingasymptoticsflexibilityresource poolingdynamic matchingexpander graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

Abstract: We study a multi-server model with $n$ flexible servers and $n$ queues, connected through a bipartite graph, where the level of flexibility is captured by the graph's average degree, $d_n$. Applications in content replication in data centers, skill-based routing in call centers, and flexible supply chains are among our main motivations. We focus on the scaling regime where the system size $n$ tends to infinity, while the overall traffic intensity stays fixed. We show that a large capacity region and an asymptotically vanishing queueing delay are simultaneously achievable even under limited flexibility ($d_{n}lln$). Our main results demonstrate that, when $d_{n}gglnn$, a family of expander-graph-based flexibility architectures has a capacity region that is within a constant factor of the maximum possible, while simultaneously ensuring a diminishing queueing delay for all arrival rate vectors in the capacity region. Our analysis is centered around a new class of virtual-queue-based scheduling policies that rely on dynamically constructed job-to-server assignments on the connectivity graph. For comparison, we also analyze a natural family of modular architectures, which is simpler but has provably weaker performance.

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