Multiresource Allocation: Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoffs in a Unifying Framework

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 1785 - 1798
• Main Authors: Joe-Wong, Carlee, Sen, Soumya, Lan, Tian, Chiang, Mung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Data center; efficiency; fairness; Indexes; Measurement; Memory management; multiresource allocation; resource allocation; Resource management; tradeoff; Vectors; Visualization

Quantifying the notion of fairness is underexplored when there are multiple types of resources and users request different ratios of the different resources. A typical example is data centers processing jobs with heterogeneous resource requirements on CPU, memory, network bandwidth, etc. In such cas...