E. Hyytiä, D. Down, P. Lassila and S. Aalto, Dynamic Control of Running Servers, in 19th International GI/ITG Conference on ``Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems'' (MMB), vol. LNCS 10740, pp. 127-141, Springer Verlag, 2018.
Abstract: Motivated by a data center setting, we study the problem of joint dispatching and server sleep state control in a system consisting of two queues in parallel. Using the theory of Markov decision processes and a novel lookahead approach, we explicitly determine near-optimal control policies that minimize a combination of QoE costs, energy costs, and wear and tear costs due to switching. Guidelines are provided as to when these combined policies are most effective.
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@inproceedings{hyytia-mmb-2018,
title = {Dynamic Control of Running Servers},
author = {Esa Hyyti{\"a} and Douglas Down and Pasi Lassila and Samuli Aalto},
booktitle = {19th International {GI/ITG} Conference on ``Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems'' (MMB)},
month = {Feb.},
year = {2018},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
volume = {LNCS 10740},
pages = {127--141},
doiopt = {10.1007/978-3-319-74947-1_9},
}