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1. E. Hyytiä, D. Down, P. Lassila and S. Aalto, Dynamic control of running servers, in Proceedings of 19th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (MMB 2018), 2018, Erlangen, Germany (bib)

   Abstract: Motivated by a data center setting, we study the problem of joint dispatching and server sleep state control in a system consisting of two queues in parallel. Using the theory of Markov decision processes AQ1 and a novel lookahead approach, we explicitly determine near-optimal control policies that minimize a combination of QoE costs, energy costs, and wear and tear costs due to switching. Guidelines are provided as to when these combined policies are most effective.