MCRL2 is a reinforcement learning framework that enhances microservice scheduling in cloud data centers by integrating multi-resource cross-attention-based representation learning. It introduces MCRL, a representation learning component that captures structured interactions among nodes, resources, and microservices, and couples this with an actor‑critic architecture and a maximum entropy objective. Experiments on real production cluster traces show that MCRL2 outperforms existing baselines in load balancing, scheduling success rate, and average completion time across diverse workloads.
arXiv:2609.37085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-intensive services in the Computing Continuum must balance analytics quality, resource usage, and cost across heterogeneous nodes with limited a...
arXiv:2606. 07565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent scaling of microservices in cloud platforms is crucial for mitigating escalating compute costs while avoiding service disruptions.
arXiv:2609.14968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online scheduling of dependency-aware tasks in heterogeneous cloud clusters is a fundamental yet challenging problem due to the complex interplay betwe...
arXiv:2609.14952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic cloud workflow scheduling must balance deadline satisfaction, container utilization, and energy consumption while dealing with stochastic task-...
Agentic‑Kube is a cooperative multi‑agent reinforcement learning framework for Kubernetes pod placement that splits the multi‑objective scheduling problem into cost minimisation, anti‑affinity fault tolerance, and vector resource balancing, each handled by a dedicated sub‑agent. It uses a bipartite Graph Convolutional Network to model host‑pod dependencies, a two‑stage monotonic QMIX value factorisation network for joint action coherence, and a plurality voting consensus with action feasibility masking. Evaluations on Google Kubernetes Engine and large‑scale clusters show Pareto‑efficient placements, a 53% reduction in anti‑affinity collisions, a 65% spot instance allocation ratio, and sub‑30 ms decision latencies up to 1,000 nodes without container restarts.
arXiv:2501. 12942v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective multi-user delay-constrained scheduling is crucial in various real-world applications, including embodied AI, instant messaging, live streaming, and data center management, where efficient resource allocation is required among users with diverse delay sensitivities.
arXiv:2605. 02965v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for automating the creation of diverse and customized content, giving rise to rapidly growing computational workloads in cloud data centers.
arXiv:2607. 18288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Load imbalance across edge and cloud layers degrades latency performance in hierarchical edge-cloud computing (HECC) systems under dynamic task arrivals and heterogeneous resources, leading to severe queuing delays and inefficient resource utilization.
arXiv:2609.17193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered agentic AI services increasingly demand low-latency inference, motivating the deployment of LLMs across distributed...
arXiv:2605. 13221v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In cloud manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support both product collection and mobile edge computing (MEC).
arXiv:2504. 18902v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the forthcoming era of 6G networks, characterized by unprecedented data rates, ultra-low latency, and ubiquitous connectivity, effective management of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) is essential.
arXiv:2608. 05340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) hold strong potential for enabling ultra-reliable low-latency communication for time-sensitive applications, such as eXtended Reality (XR).