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We present theoretical results for large-file distribution on general networks of known topology (known link bandwidths and router locations). We show that the problem of distributing a file in minimum time is NP-hard in this model, and we give an O(logn) approximation algorithm, where n is the number of workstations that require the file. We also characterize our method as optimal amongst the class of “no-link-sharing” algorithms.
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O’Neil, S.T., Chaudhary, A., Chen, D.Z., Wang, H. (2011). The Topology Aware File Distribution Problem. In: Fu, B., Du, DZ. (eds) Computing and Combinatorics. COCOON 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22685-4_33
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