An approximation algorithm for a file-allocation problem in a hierarchical distributed system

  • Authors:
  • K. Lam;C. T. Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL;University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

A file allocation problem in a hierarchical distributed computer network is examined. It is shown that the problem is NP-hard. An approximation algorithm is suggested. It is estimated that the approximation algorithm has a high chance of obtaining the optimal solution. Experimental results show that the difference between the optimal solution and the solution generated by the approximation algorithm is no more than 4% away from the optimal solution.