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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.52
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171741
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/17174/
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Ibrahimpur, Sharat ; Purohit, Manish ; Svitkina, Zoya ; Vee, Erik ; Wang, Joshua R.

Caching with Reserves

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Abstract

Caching is among the most well-studied topics in algorithm design, in part because it is such a fundamental component of many computer systems. Much of traditional caching research studies cache management for a single-user or single-processor environment. In this paper, we propose two related generalizations of the classical caching problem that capture issues that arise in a multi-user or multi-processor environment. In the caching with reserves problem, a caching algorithm is required to maintain at least k_i pages belonging to user i in the cache at any time, for some given reserve capacities k_i. In the public-private caching problem, the cache of total size k is partitioned into subcaches, a private cache of size k_i for each user i and a shared public cache usable by any user. In both of these models, as in the classical caching framework, the objective of the algorithm is to dynamically maintain the cache so as to minimize the total number of cache misses.
We show that caching with reserves and public-private caching models are equivalent up to constant factors, and thus focus on the former. Unlike classical caching, both of these models turn out to be NP-hard even in the offline setting, where the page sequence is known in advance. For the offline setting, we design a 2-approximation algorithm, whose analysis carefully keeps track of a potential function to bound the cost. In the online setting, we first design an O(ln k)-competitive fractional algorithm using the primal-dual framework, and then show how to convert it online to a randomized integral algorithm with the same guarantee.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{ibrahimpur_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.52,
  author =	{Ibrahimpur, Sharat and Purohit, Manish and Svitkina, Zoya and Vee, Erik and Wang, Joshua R.},
  title =	{{Caching with Reserves}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-249-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{245},
  editor =	{Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17174},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171741},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Online Algorithms, Caching}
}

Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Online Algorithms, Caching
Collection: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 15.09.2022

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