Service placement with provable guarantees in heterogeneous edge computing systems

S Pasteris, S Wang, M Herbster… - IEEE INFOCOM 2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique for providing low-latency access to
services at the network edge. The services are hosted at various types of edge nodes with …

Submodular function maximization via the multilinear relaxation and contention resolution schemes

C Chekuri, J Vondrák, R Zenklusen - … of the forty-third annual ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of maximizing a non-negative submodular set function f: 2N-> RR+
over a ground set N subject to a variety of packing type constraints including (multiple) …

A unified continuous greedy algorithm for submodular maximization

M Feldman, J Naor, R Schwartz - 2011 IEEE 52nd annual …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study of combinatorial problems with a submodular objective function has attracted
much attention in recent years, and is partly motivated by the importance of such problems to …

Streaming algorithms for submodular function maximization

C Chekuri, S Gupta, K Quanrud - … , ICALP 2015, Kyoto, Japan, July 6-10 …, 2015 - Springer
We consider the problem of maximizing a nonnegative submodular set function f: 2^ N →
R^+ f: 2 N→ R+ subject to ap-matchoid constraint in the single-pass streaming setting …

Primal beats dual on online packing lps in the random-order model

T Kesselheim, A Tönnis, K Radke… - Proceedings of the forty …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We study packing LPs in an online model where the columns are presented to the algorithm
in random order. This natural problem was investigated in various recent studies motivated …

A stochastic probing problem with applications

A Gupta, V Nagarajan - … Conference, IPCO 2013, Valparaíso, Chile, March …, 2013 - Springer
We study a general stochastic probing problem defined on a universe V, where each
element e∈ V is “active” independently with probability pe. Elements have weights {we: e∈ …

When LP is the cure for your matching woes: Improved bounds for stochastic matchings

N Bansal, A Gupta, J Li, J Mestre, V Nagarajan… - Algorithmica, 2012 - Springer
Consider a random graph model where each possible edge e is present independently with
some probability pe. Given these probabilities, we want to build a large/heavy matching in …

Submodular function maximization in parallel via the multilinear relaxation

C Chekuri, K Quanrud - Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2019 - SIAM
Balkanski and Singer [4] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for
constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality …

Approximations for monotone and nonmonotone submodular maximization with knapsack constraints

A Kulik, H Shachnai, T Tamir - Mathematics of Operations …, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
Submodular maximization generalizes many fundamental problems in discrete optimization,
including Max-Cut in directed/undirected graphs, maximum coverage, maximum facility …

Joint placement and routing of network function chains in data centers

L Guo, J Pang, A Walid - IEEE INFOCOM 2018-IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the problem of joint optimization over placement and routing of
network function chains in data centers. In the offline case, we demonstrate that a classical …