# Resilient Edge Service Placement under Demand and Node Failure Uncertainties

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04748 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.04748/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jul 2021.

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- [Multi-Timescale Latent-Action DRL for Joint Optimization in Edge-Cloud Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.18288/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Resiliency plays a critical role in designing future communication networks. How to make edge computing systems resilient against unpredictable failures and fluctuating demand is an important and challenging problem. To this end, this paper investigates a resilient service placement and workload allocation problem for a service provider (SP) who can procure resources from numerous edge nodes to serve its users, considering both resource demand and node failure uncertainties. We introduce a novel two-stage adaptive robust model to capture this problem. The service placement and resource procurement decisions are optimized in the first stage while the workload allocation decision is determined in the second stage after the uncertainty realization. By exploiting the special structure of the uncertainty set, we develop an efficient iterative algorithm that can converge to an exact optimal solution within a finite number of iterations. We further present an affine decision rule approximation approach for solving large-scale problem instances in a reasonable time. Extensive numerical results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model and approaches, which can help the SP make proactive decisions to mitigate the impacts of the uncertainties.