Equitable revisited

  • Authors:
  • Wolfgang Bein;Lawrence L. Larmore;John Noga

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms, School of Computer Science, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada;Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms, School of Computer Science, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada;Computer Science Department, California State University, Northridge, CA

  • Venue:
  • ESA'07 Proceedings of the 15th annual European conference on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The randomized k-paging algorithm EQUITABLE given by Achlioptas et al. is Hk-competitive and uses O(k2 log k) memory. This competitive ratio is best possible. The randomized algorithm RMARK given by Fiat et al. is (2Hk - 1)-competitive, but only uses O(k) memory. Borodin and El Yaniv [6] list as an open question whether there exists an Hk-competitive randomized algorithm which requires O(k) memory for k-paging. In this paper we answer this question in the affirmative by giving a modification of EQUITABLE.