Broadcast scheduling: when fairness is fine

  • Authors:
  • Jeff Edmonds;Kirk Pruhs

  • Affiliations:
  • York University, Canada;University of Pittsburgh

  • Venue:
  • SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We investigate server scheduling policies to minimize user perceived latency in a client-server system where the server uses broadcast communication. We show that no O(1)-competitive online algorithms exist for this problem. We consider the intuitive algorithm BEQUI that broadcasts all requested files at a rate proportional to the number of out-standing requests for that file. We show that BEQUI is an O(1)-speed O(1)-approximation algorithm. We give another algorithm BEQUI-EDF, and show that BEQUI-EDF is also an O(1)-speed O(1)-approximation algorithm. However, BEQUI-EDF has the advantage that it preempts each broadcast on average at most once and will never preempt if the data items have unit size.