Emergent Mind
A Polylogarithmic-Competitive Algorithm for the k-Server Problem
(1110.1580)
Published Oct 7, 2011
in
cs.DS
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 n log2 k log log n) for any metric space on n points. Our algorithm improves upon the deterministic (2k-1)-competitive algorithm of Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou [J.ACM'95] whenever n is sub-exponential in k.
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