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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2019.26
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-115886
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/11588/
Sarpatwar, Kanthi ;
Schieber, Baruch ;
Shachnai, Hadas
The Preemptive Resource Allocation Problem
Abstract
We revisit a classical scheduling model to incorporate modern trends in data center networks and cloud services. Addressing some key challenges in the allocation of shared resources to user requests (jobs) in such settings, we consider the following variants of the classic resource allocation problem (RAP). The input to our problems is a set J of jobs and a set M of homogeneous hosts, each has an available amount of some resource. A job is associated with a release time, a due date, a weight and a given length, as well as its resource requirement. A feasible schedule is an allocation of the resource to a subset of the jobs, satisfying the job release times/due dates as well as the resource constraints. A crucial distinction between classic RAP and our problems is that we allow preemption and migration of jobs, motivated by virtualization techniques.
We consider two natural objectives: throughput maximization (MaxT), which seeks a maximum weight subset of the jobs that can be feasibly scheduled on the hosts in M, and resource minimization (MinR), that is finding the minimum number of (homogeneous) hosts needed to feasibly schedule all jobs. Both problems are known to be NP-hard. We first present an Omega(1)-approximation algorithm for MaxT instances where time-windows form a laminar family of intervals. We then extend the algorithm to handle instances with arbitrary time-windows, assuming there is sufficient slack for each job to be completed. For MinR we study a more general setting with d resources and derive an O(log d)-approximation for any fixed d >= 1, under the assumption that time-windows are not too small. This assumption can be removed leading to a slightly worse ratio of O(log d log^* T), where T is the maximum due date of any job.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{sarpatwar_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:11588,
author = {Kanthi Sarpatwar and Baruch Schieber and Hadas Shachnai},
title = {{The Preemptive Resource Allocation Problem}},
booktitle = {39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2019)},
pages = {26:1--26:15},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-131-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2019},
volume = {150},
editor = {Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Paul Gastin},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11588},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-115886},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2019.26},
annote = {Keywords: Machine Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Vector Packing, Approximation Algorithms}
}
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Machine Scheduling, Resource Allocation, Vector Packing, Approximation Algorithms |
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39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2019) |
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2019 |
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04.12.2019 |
