Years and Authors of Summarized Original Work
2005; Bansal, Charikar, Khanna, Naor
2008; Bansal, Coppersmith, Sviridenko
2014; Bansal, Charikar, Krishnaswamy, Li
Problem Definition
In this entry, we consider the classical broadcast scheduling problem and discuss some recent advances on this problem. The problem is formalized as follows: there is a server which has a collection of unit-sized pages P = {1, …, n}. The server can broadcast pages in integer time slots in response to requests, which are given as the following sequence: at time t, the server receives \(w_{p}(t) \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}\) requests for each page p ∈ P. We say that a request ρ for page p that arrives at time t is satisfied at time c p (t) if c p (t) is the first time after t by which the server has completely transmitted page p. The response time of the request ρ is defined to be c p (t) − t, i.e., the time that elapses from its arrival till the time it is satisfied. Notice that by definition, the response time...
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Krishnaswamy, R. (2016). Broadcast Scheduling – Minimizing Average Response Time. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_538
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