Energy-Efficient algorithms for flow time minimization

  • Authors:
  • Susanne Albers;Hiroshi Fujiwara

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 79, Germany;Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • STACS'06 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study scheduling problems in battery-operated computing devices, aiming at schedules with low total energy consumption. While most of the previous work has focused on finding feasible schedules in deadline-based settings, in this paper we are interested in schedules that guarantee good response times. More specifically, our goal is to schedule a sequence of jobs on a variable speed processor so as to minimize the total cost consisting of the power consumption and the total flow time of all the jobs. We first show that when the amount of work, for any job, may take an arbitrary value, then no online algorithm can achieve a constant competitive ratio. Therefore, most of the paper is concerned with unit-size jobs. We devise a deterministic constant competitive online algorithm and show that the offline problem can be solved in polynomial time.