Resource augmentation for online bounded space bin packing

  • Authors:
  • János Csirik;Gerhard J. Woeginger

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary;Department of Mathematics, University of Twente, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands and Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz, Steyrergasse 30, A-8010 Graz, ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study online bounded space bin packing in the resource augmentation model of competitive analysis. In this model, the online bounded space packing algorithm has to pack a list L of items in (0, 1] into a small number of bins of size b ≥ 1. Its performance is measured by comparing the produced packing against the optimal offline packing of the list L into bins of size 1.We present a complete solution to this problem: For every bin size b ≥ 1, we design online bounded space bin packing algorithms whose worst case ratio in this model comes arbitrarily close to a certain bound ρ(b). Moreover, we prove that no online bounded space algorithm can perform better than ρ(b) in the worst case.