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      Large-scale heterogeneous service systems with general packing constraints

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          A service system with multiple types of customers, arriving according to Poisson processes, is considered. The system is heterogeneous in that the servers also can be of multiple types. Each customer has an independent exponentially distributed service time, with the mean determined by its type. Multiple customers (possibly of different types) can be placed for service into one server, subject to "packing" constraints, which depend on the server type. Service times of different customers are independent, even if served simultaneously by the same server. Such a system models, for example, dynamic real-time assignment of virtual machines to physical machines in a network cloud, where typical objectives may be to minimize the number of occupied (non-idle) hosts and/or to minimize blocking/waiting of virtual machines. We consider two variants of the model, and two corresponding generalizations of the {\em Greedy Random} (GRAND) algorithm, introduced for homogeneous (one server type) systems in [15]. The large-scale asymptotic regime is considered such that the customer arrival rates grow to infinity. For the infinite-server model, we prove asymptotic optimality of the algorithm in the sense of minimizing the weighted (by type) number of occupied servers in steady-state. For the finite-server system with blocking, under subcritical load, we prove existence, uniqueness, and local stability of the system equilibrium point (without blocking) for the fluid limit trajectories. This in turn strongly suggests a conjecture that the steady-state blocking probability under the algorithm vanishes in the large-scale limit.

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          1508.07512

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