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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.21
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67901
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6790/
Böhm, Martin ;
Chrobak, Marek ;
Jez, Lukasz ;
Li, Fei ;
Sgall, Jirí ;
Veselý, Pavel
Online Packet Scheduling with Bounded Delay and Lookahead
Abstract
We study the online bounded-delay packet scheduling problem (PacketScheduling), where packets of unit size arrive at a router over time and need to be transmitted over a network link. Each packet has two attributes: a non-negative weight and a deadline for its transmission. The objective is to maximize the total weight of the transmitted packets. This problem has been well studied in the literature, yet its optimal competitive ratio remains unknown: the best upper bound is 1.828 [Englert and Westermann, SODA 2007], still quite far from the best lower bound of phi approx 1.618 [Hajek, CISS 2001; Andelman et al, SODA 2003; Chin and Fung, Algorithmica, 2003].
In the variant of PacketScheduling with s-bounded instances, each packet can be scheduled in at most s consecutive slots, starting at its release time. The lower bound of phi applies even to the special case of 2-bounded instances, and a phi-competitive algorithm for 3-bounded instances was given in [Chin et al, JDA, 2006]. Improving that result, and addressing a question posed by Goldwasser [SIGACT News, 2010], we present a phi-competitive algorithm for 4-bounded instances.
We also study a variant of PacketScheduling where an online algorithm has the additional power of 1-lookahead, knowing at time t which packets will arrive at time t+1. For PacketScheduling with 1-lookahead restricted to 2-bounded instances, we present an online algorithm with competitive ratio frac{1}{2}(sqrt{13} - 1) approx 1.303 and we prove a nearly tight lower bound of frac{1}{4}(1 + sqrt{17}) approx 1.281.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{bhm_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6790,
author = {Martin B{\"o}hm and Marek Chrobak and Lukasz Jez and Fei Li and Jir{\'i} Sgall and Pavel Vesel{\'y}},
title = {{Online Packet Scheduling with Bounded Delay and Lookahead}},
booktitle = {27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)},
pages = {21:1--21:13},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-026-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2016},
volume = {64},
editor = {Seok-Hee Hong},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6790},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67901},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.21},
annote = {Keywords: buffer management, online scheduling, online algorithm, lookahead}
}
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buffer management, online scheduling, online algorithm, lookahead |
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27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016) |
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07.12.2016 |
