Abstract
In a Content Distribution Network application, we have a set of servers and a set of clients to be connected to the servers. Often there are a few server types and a hard budget constraint on the number of deployed servers of each type. The simplest goal here is to deploy a set of servers subject to these budget constraints in order to minimize the sum of client connection costs. These connection costs often satisfy metricity, since they are typically proportional to the distance between a client and a server within a single autonomous system. A special case of the problem where there is only one server type is the well-studied k-median problem.
In this paper, we consider the problem with two server types and call it the budgeted red-blue median problem. We show, somewhat surprisingly, that running a single-swap local search for each server type simultaneously, yields a constant factor approximation for this case. Its analysis is however quite non-trivial compared to that of the k-median problem (Arya et al., 2004; Gupta and Tangwongsan, 2008).
Later we show that the same algorithm yields a constant approximation for the prize-collecting version of the budgeted red-blue median problem where each client can potentially be served with an alternative cost via a different vendor. In the process, we also improve the approximation factor for the prize-collecting k -median problem from 4 (Charikar et al., 2001) to 3 + ε, which matches the current best approximation factor for the k-median problem.
Part of this work was done while the authors were meeting at DIMACS. We would like to thank DIMACS for hospitality.
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Hajiaghayi, M., Khandekar, R., Kortsarz, G. (2010). Budgeted Red-Blue Median and Its Generalizations. In: de Berg, M., Meyer, U. (eds) Algorithms – ESA 2010. ESA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15775-2_27
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