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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2009.1815
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-18151
URL: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1815/
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### Nonclairvoyant Speed Scaling for Flow and Energy

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### Abstract

We study online nonclairvoyant speed scaling to minimize total flow time plus energy. We first consider the traditional model where the power function is $P(s)=s^\alpha$. We give a nonclairvoyant algorithm that is shown to be $O(\alpha^3)$-competitive. We then show an $\Omega( \alpha^{1/3-\epsilon} )$ lower bound on the competitive ratio of any nonclairvoyant algorithm. We also show that there are power functions for which no nonclairvoyant algorithm can be $O(1)$-competitive.

### BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{chan_et_al:LIPIcs:2009:1815,
author =	{Ho-Leung Chan and Jeff Edmonds and Tak-Wah Lam and Lap-Kei Lee and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Kirk Pruhs},
title =	{{Nonclairvoyant Speed Scaling for Flow and Energy}},
booktitle =	{26th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
pages =	{255--264},
series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN =	{978-3-939897-09-5},
ISSN =	{1868-8969},
year =	{2009},
volume =	{3},
editor =	{Susanne Albers and Jean-Yves Marion},
publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},