On-demand bounded broadcast scheduling with tight deadlines

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Author(s)

  • Chung Keung Poon
  • Feifeng Zheng
  • Yinfeng Xu

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Detail(s)

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)251-262
Number of pages12
Journal / PublicationInternational Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
Volume18
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2007

Conference

Title12th Computing - The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS 2006)
PlaceAustralia
CityHobart
Period16 January - 19 July 2006

Abstract

We investigate an online scheduling problem motivated by pull-based data delivery systems where there is a server keeping a number of pages; and clients requesting the same page can be satisfied simultaneously by one broadcast. We focus on the special case where preemption is allowed but aborted requests can never be satisfied again. The HEU algorithm of Woeginger [10] is proven to be optimal in maximizing the number of satisfied requests when the pages have equal length and the requests have tight deadlines. However, we show that when there are maximum bounds on the number and weight of requests at any time in the system, the HEU algorithm is not optimal. We then propose a modified algorithm, VAR, which is optimal for this case.

Citation Format(s)

On-demand bounded broadcast scheduling with tight deadlines. / Poon, Chung Keung; Zheng, Feifeng; Xu, Yinfeng.
In: International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 18, No. 2, 04.2007, p. 251-262.

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review