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12th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'04)
Size-Based Scheduling Policies with Inaccurate Scheduling Information
Volendam, The Netherlands
October 04-October 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2251-3
Dong Lu, Northwestern University
Huanyuan Sheng, Northwestern University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Size-based scheduling policies such as SRPT have been studied since 1960s and have been applied in various arenas including packet networks and web server scheduling. SRPT has been proven to be optimal in the sense that it yields — compared to any other conceivable strategy — the smallest mean value of occupancy and therefore also of waiting and delay time. One important pre-requisite to applying size-based scheduling is to know the sizes of all jobs in advance, which are unfortunately not always available. No work has been done to study the performance of size-based scheduling policies when only inaccurate scheduling information is available. In this paper, we study the performance of SRPT and FSP as a function of the correlation coefficient between the actual job sizes and estimated job sizes. We developed a simulator that supports both M/G/1/m and G/G/n/m queuing models. The simulator can be driven by trace data or synthetic data produced by a workload generator we have developed that allows us to control the correlation. The simulations show that the degree of correlation has a dramatic effect on the performance of SRPT and FSP and that a reasonably good job size estimator will make both SRPT and FSP outperform PS in both mean response time and slowdown.
Citation:
Dong Lu, Huanyuan Sheng, Peter Dinda, "Size-Based Scheduling Policies with Inaccurate Scheduling Information," mascots, pp.31-38, 12th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS'04), 2004
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