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Load Balancing Under Strict Compatibility Constraints

08/17/2020
by   Daan Rutten, et al.
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We study large-scale systems operating under the JSQ(d) policy in the presence of stringent task-server compatibility constraints. Consider a system with N identical single-server queues and M(N) task types, where each server is able to process only a small subset of possible task types. Each arriving task selects d≥ 2 random servers compatible to its type, and joins the shortest queue among them. The compatibility constraint is naturally captured by a fixed bipartite graph G_N between the servers and the task types. When G_N is complete bipartite, the meanfield approximation is proven to be accurate. However, such dense compatibility graphs are infeasible due to their overwhelming implementation cost and prohibitive storage capacity requirement at the servers. Our goal in this paper is to characterize the class of sparse compatibility graphs for which the meanfield approximation remains valid. To achieve this, first, we introduce a novel graph expansion-based notion, called proportional sparsity, and establish that systems with proportionally sparse compatibility graphs match the performance of a fully flexible system, asymptotically in the large-system limit. Furthermore, for any c(N) satisfying Nc(N)/M(N)ln(N)→∞ and c(N)→∞, as N→∞, we show that proportionally sparse random compatibility graphs can be designed, so that the degree of each server is at most c(N). This reduces the server-degree almost by a factor N/ln(N), compared to the complete bipartite compatibility graph, while maintaining the same asymptotic performance. Extensive simulation experiments are conducted to corroborate the theoretical results.

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