The online transportation problem: on the exponential boost of one extra server

  • Authors:
  • Christine Chung;Kirk Pruhs;Patchrawat Uthaisombut

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh;University of Pittsburgh;University of Pittsburgh

  • Venue:
  • LATIN'08 Proceedings of the 8th Latin American conference on Theoretical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a poly-log-competitive deterministic online algorithm for the online transportation problem on hierarchically separated trees when the online algorithm has one extra server per site. Using metric embedding results in the literature, one can then obtain a poly-log-competitive randomized online algorithm for the online transportation on an arbitrary metric space when the online algorithm has one extra server per site.