Xiaoping Li

Cloud Workflow Scheduling with Deadlines and Time Slot Availability

2016 · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Allocating service capacities in cloud computing is based on the assumption that they are unlimited and can be used at any time. However, available service capacities change with workload and cannot satisfy users' requests at …

Distributed task scheduling with security and outage constraints in MapReduce

2017

The emergence of MapReduce, a simple software framework, is helping to deal with vast amount of data (multiterabyte data-sets) in-parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner. Extensive …

ICPS: Real-Time Resource Configuration for Cloud Serverless Functions Considering Affinity

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Serverless computing, with its operational simplicity and on-demand scalability, has become a preferred paradigm for deploying workflow applications. However, resource allocation for workflows, particularly those with branching structures, is complicated by cold starts and network …