On-line load balancing of temporary tasks on identical machines

Yossi Azar; Leah Epstein

doi:10.1137/S0895480197329296

On-line load balancing of temporary tasks on identical machines

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Abstract

We prove an exact lower bound of 2 -1/M on the competitive ratio of any deterministic algorithm for load balancing of temporary tasks on m identical machines. We also show a lower bound of 2 - 2/m+1 randomized algorithms. For small values of m we give an improved randomized lower bound of 2 - 1/m.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	347-352
Number of pages	6
Journal	SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1137/S0895480197329296
State	Published - Oct 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Competitive ratio
Load balancing
On-line
Scheduling
Temporary tasks

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General Mathematics

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On-line load balancing of temporary tasks on identical machines

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