A polylogarithmic-competitive algorithm for the k-server problem

Nikhil Bansal; Niv Buchbinder; Aleksander Madry; Joseph Seffi Naor

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A polylogarithmic-competitive algorithm for the k-server problem

Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Aleksander Madry, Joseph Seffi Naor

Tel Aviv University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

We give the first polylogarithmic-competitive randomized online algorithm for the k-server problem on an arbitrary finite metric space. In particular, our algorithm achieves a competitive ratio of O(log³ nlog² k) for any metric space on n points. Our algorithm improves upon the deterministic (2k-1)-competitive algorithm of Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou [Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou 1995] for a wide range of n.

Original language	English
Article number	40
Journal	Journal of the ACM
Volume	62
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2783434
State	Published - Oct 2015

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Competitive analysis
K-server problem
Randomization

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture
Artificial Intelligence

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