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Bounded Delay Packet Scheduling in a Bounded Buffer

Data Structures and Algorithms 2009-07-17 v1

Abstract

We study the problem of buffer management in QoS-enabled network switches in the bounded delay model where each packet is associated with a weight and a deadline. We consider the more realistic situation where the network switch has a finite buffer size. A 9.82-competitive algorithm is known for the case of multiple buffers (Azar and Levy, SWAT'06). Recently, for the case of a single buffer, a 3-competitive deterministic algorithm and a 2.618-competitive randomized algorithm was known (Li, INFOCOM'09). In this paper we give a simple deterministic 2-competitive algorithm for the case of a single buffer.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2741,
  title  = {Bounded Delay Packet Scheduling in a Bounded Buffer},
  author = {Stanley P. Y. Fung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2741},
  year   = {2009}
}

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