Efficient caching with reserves via marking

Ibrahimpur, Sharat, Purohit, Manish, Svitkina, Zoya, Vee, Erik and Wang, Joshua R. (2023) Efficient caching with reserves via marking. In: Etessami, Kousha, Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele, (eds.) 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2023. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. ISBN 9783959772785

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Abstract

Online caching is among the most fundamental and well-studied problems in the area of online algorithms. Innovative algorithmic ideas and analysis – including potential functions and primal-dual techniques – give insight into this still-growing area. Here, we introduce a new analysis technique that first uses a potential function to upper bound the cost of an online algorithm and then pairs that with a new dual-fitting strategy to lower bound the cost of an offline optimal algorithm. We apply these techniques to the Caching with Reserves problem recently introduced by Ibrahimpur et al. [10] and give an O(log k)-competitive fractional online algorithm via a marking strategy, where k denotes the size of the cache. We also design a new online rounding algorithm that runs in polynomial time to obtain an O(log k)-competitive randomized integral algorithm. Additionally, we provide a new, simple proof for randomized marking for the classical unweighted paging problem.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2023 10:15
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2024 07:47
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120004

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