Learning to Schedule: A Supervised Learning Framework for Network-Aware Scheduling of Data-Intensive Workloads

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Autori principali: Timilsina, Sankalpa, Shannigrahi, Susmit
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Timilsina, Sankalpa
Shannigrahi, Susmit
author_facet Timilsina, Sankalpa
Shannigrahi, Susmit
contents Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level metrics like CPU or memory. Scheduling without accounting for these conditions can lead to poor placement decisions, longer data transfers, and suboptimal job performance. We present a network-aware job scheduler that uses supervised learning to predict the completion time of candidate jobs. Our system introduces a prediction-and-ranking mechanism that collects real-time telemetry from all nodes, uses a trained supervised model to estimate job duration per node, and ranks them to select the best placement. We evaluate the scheduler on a geo-distributed Kubernetes cluster deployed on the FABRIC testbed by running network-intensive Spark workloads. Compared to the default Kubernetes scheduler, which makes placement decisions based on current resource availability alone, our proposed supervised scheduler achieved 34-54% higher accuracy in selecting optimal nodes for job placement. The novelty of our work lies in the demonstration of supervised learning for real-time, network-aware job scheduling on a multi-site cluster.
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spellingShingle Learning to Schedule: A Supervised Learning Framework for Network-Aware Scheduling of Data-Intensive Workloads
Timilsina, Sankalpa
Shannigrahi, Susmit
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Distributed cloud environments hosting data-intensive applications often experience slowdowns due to network congestion, asymmetric bandwidth, and inter-node data shuffling. These factors are typically not captured by traditional host-level metrics like CPU or memory. Scheduling without accounting for these conditions can lead to poor placement decisions, longer data transfers, and suboptimal job performance. We present a network-aware job scheduler that uses supervised learning to predict the completion time of candidate jobs. Our system introduces a prediction-and-ranking mechanism that collects real-time telemetry from all nodes, uses a trained supervised model to estimate job duration per node, and ranks them to select the best placement. We evaluate the scheduler on a geo-distributed Kubernetes cluster deployed on the FABRIC testbed by running network-intensive Spark workloads. Compared to the default Kubernetes scheduler, which makes placement decisions based on current resource availability alone, our proposed supervised scheduler achieved 34-54% higher accuracy in selecting optimal nodes for job placement. The novelty of our work lies in the demonstration of supervised learning for real-time, network-aware job scheduling on a multi-site cluster.
title Learning to Schedule: A Supervised Learning Framework for Network-Aware Scheduling of Data-Intensive Workloads
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21419