Further improvements in competitive guarantees for QoS buffering

Nikhil Bansal, Lisa K. Fleischer, Tracy Kimbrel, Mohammad Mahdian, Baruch Schieber, Maxim Sviridenko

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Abstract

We study the behavior of algorithms for buffering packets weighted by different levels of Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in a single queue. Buffer space is limited, and packet loss occurs when the buffer overflows. We describe a modification of the previously proposed "preemptive greedy" algorithm of for buffer management and give an analysis to show that this algorithm achieves a competitive ratio of at most 1.75. This improves upon recent work showing a 1.98 competitive ratio, and a previous result that shows a simple greedy algorithm has a competitive ratio of 2.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsJosep Díaz, Juhani Karhumäki, Arto Lepistö, Donald Sannella
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages196-207
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540228497
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3142
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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