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Online Makespan Scheduling with Job Migration on Uniform Machines

Authors Matthias Englert, David Mezlaf, Matthias Westermann

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  • Theory of computation → Scheduling algorithms
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  • online algorithms
  • competitive analysis
  • minimum makespan scheduling
  • job migration

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Abstract

In the classic minimum makespan scheduling problem, we are given an input sequence of n jobs with sizes. A scheduling algorithm has to assign the jobs to m parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the makespan, which is the time it takes until all jobs are processed. In this paper, we consider online scheduling algorithms without preemption. However, we allow the online algorithm to reassign up to k jobs to different machines in the final assignment.
For m identical machines, Albers and Hellwig (Algorithmica, 2017) give tight bounds on the competitive ratio in this model. The precise ratio depends on, and increases with, m. It lies between 4/3 and ~~ 1.4659. They show that k = O(m) is sufficient to achieve this bound and no k = o(n) can result in a better bound.
We study m uniform machines, i.e., machines with different speeds, and show that this setting is strictly harder. For sufficiently large m, there is a delta = Theta(1) such that, for m machines with only two different machine speeds, no online algorithm can achieve a competitive ratio of less than 1.4659 + delta with k = o(n).
We present a new algorithm for the uniform machine setting. Depending on the speeds of the machines, our scheduling algorithm achieves a competitive ratio that lies between 4/3 and ~~ 1.7992 with k = O(m). We also show that k = Omega(m) is necessary to achieve a competitive ratio below 2.
Our algorithm is based on a subtle imbalance with respect to the completion times of the machines, complemented by a bicriteria approximation algorithm that minimizes the makespan and maximizes the average completion time for certain sets of machines.

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Matthias Englert, David Mezlaf, and Matthias Westermann. Online Makespan Scheduling with Job Migration on Uniform Machines. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 26:1-26:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.26

Author Details

Matthias Englert
  • DIMAP and Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
David Mezlaf
  • Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Matthias Westermann
  • Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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