The spectrum usage often comes in an online fashion. Considering the selfish behaviors of both primary users(PUs) and sencond users(SUs), we design online double spectrum allocation methods. We propose a truthful onli...
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The spectrum usage often comes in an online fashion. Considering the selfish behaviors of both primary users(PUs) and sencond users(SUs), we design online double spectrum allocation methods. We propose a truthful online double auction for spectrum allocation. Preempting existing spectrum usage is not allowed. We design a strategyproof mechanism for both the primary user side and the SU side. In previous studies, users who do not interfere with each other have not been reasonably allocated to use channels. There is one and only one user on the used spectrum channel at a certain time, which will result in discarding many user requests. Our model allows multiple users to use a spectrum channel at the same time. Aiming at the shortcomings of previous research, we propose the concept of grouping for online auctions, so that all SUs that do not interfere with each other can use spectrum channels at the same time. This will greatly increase the number of users who use the spectrum at the same time. We thus increase the utilization rate of the user market, and a large number of users will not be idle and *** the design of our experiments, the grouping model proposed in this paper has obtained at least $43{\%}$ utilization rate on the set channel, and our experiments have obtained good generality for different interference radius.
Traditional economic ordering model for deteriorating items assume the procurer have full information about the procurement price. In this paper, we study an online economic ordering problem for constant deteriorating...
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Traditional economic ordering model for deteriorating items assume the procurer have full information about the procurement price. In this paper, we study an online economic ordering problem for constant deteriorating rate items with limited price information under relative performance criterion of the competitive ratio (CR). We provide a simply procurement strategy as well as the optimal ordering quantity for each case. This procurement strategy is real-time and doesn't require any forecast, i.e., upon the arrival of price, the strategy concerning procurement time and quantity only be made based on arriving price and current inventory level, with entirely arbitrary non-stationary and even adversarial price sequence arrivals. A theoretical closed-form CR is also proven to give the performance guarantee. Our numerical experiments demonstrate even better empirical performance than the corresponding proven worst-case bounds.
In this paper, we address the problem of online mining maximal frequent structures (Type I & II melody structures) in unbounded, continuous landmark melody streams. An efficient algorithm, called MMSLMS (Maximal M...
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In this paper, we address the problem of online mining maximal frequent structures (Type I & II melody structures) in unbounded, continuous landmark melody streams. An efficient algorithm, called MMSLMS (Maximal Melody Structures of Landmark Melody Streams), is developed for online incremental mining of maximal frequent melody substructures in one scan of the continuous melody streams. In MMSLMS, a space-efficient scheme, called CMB (Chord-set Memory Border), is proposed to constrain the upper-bound of space requirement of maximal frequent melody structures in such a streaming environment. Theoretical analysis and experimental study show that our algorithm is efficient and scalable for mining the set of all maximal melody structures in a landmark melody stream. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We study a common delivery problem encountered in nowadays online food-ordering platforms: Customers order dishes online, and the restaurant delivers the food after receiving the order. Specifically, we study a proble...
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We study a common delivery problem encountered in nowadays online food-ordering platforms: Customers order dishes online, and the restaurant delivers the food after receiving the order. Specifically, we study a problem where k vehicles of capacity c are serving a set of requests ordering food from one restaurant. After a request arrives, it can be served by a vehicle moving from the restaurant to its delivery location. We are interested in serving all requests while minimizing the maximum flow-time, i.e., the maximum time length a customer waits to receive his/her food after submitting the order. The problem also has a close connection with the broadcast scheduling problem with maximum flow time objective. We show that the problem is hard in both offline and online settings even when k = 1 and c = infinity: There is a hardness of approximation of Omega(n) for the offline problem, and a lower bound of Omega(n) on the competitive ratio of any online algorithm, where n is number of points in the metric. We circumvent the strong negative results in two directions. Our main result is an O(1)-competitive online algorithm for the uncapaciated (i.e, c = infinity) food delivery problem on tree metrics;we also have a negative result showing that the condition c = infinity is needed. Then we consider the speed-augmentation model, in which our online algorithm is allowed to use alpha-speed vehicles, where alpha >= 1 is called the speeding factor. We develop an exponential time (1+ is an element of)-speeding 0 (1/ is an element of)-competitive algorithm for any is an element of >0. A polynomial time algorithm can be obtained with a speeding factor of alpha TSP+ is an element of or alpha(CVRP)+ is an element of, depending on whether the problem is uncapacitated. Here alpha(TSP) and alpha(CVRP) are the best approximation factors for the traveling salesman (TSP) and capacitated vehicle routing (CVRP) problems respectively. We complement the results with some negative ones.
Inspired by the applications in on-demand manufacturing, we introduce the online k-color spanning disk problem, the first online model for color spanning problems to the best of our knowledge. Given a set P of n color...
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Inspired by the applications in on-demand manufacturing, we introduce the online k-color spanning disk problem, the first online model for color spanning problems to the best of our knowledge. Given a set P of n colored points in a plane, with each color chosen from a set C of m <= n colors, the online k-color spanning disk problem determines the location of the center that minimizes the accumulated radius of theminimum spanning disks for a sequence of color sets, denoted by delta = < C-1, C-2,..., CT >, C-t subset of C, |C-t| >= k, t epsilon{1, 2,..., T}, as they are presented online. Here, a minimum spanning disk for a color set means a disk contains at least one point of each color. We construct a special instance to establish a lower bound on the performance of any online algorithms. Then, an O(nm log n)-time Voronoi-diagram-based algorithm is designed such that its competitive ratio matches the problem ' s lower bound. This implies our algorithm is theoretically the best possible in terms of the competitive ratio. We also introduce and study a variant, named the online balanced k-color spanning disk problem, for which a non-trivial lower bound and a best possible algorithm are presented.
As the demand for faster and more reliable content delivery escalates, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) face significant challenges in managing content placement across their increasingly complex, multi-tiered structu...
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As the demand for faster and more reliable content delivery escalates, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) face significant challenges in managing content placement across their increasingly complex, multi-tiered structures to balance performance, complexity, and scalability, while addressing the transient nature of data and the unpredictability of internet traffic. Addressing these challenges, this study introduces a novel multi-tier CDN caching strategy that navigates spatial and temporal trade-offs in cache placement, considering the cache placement cost diminishes with the content lifetime, and the uncertainty of future data demands. We design a distributed online algorithm that evaluates each incoming request and places new caches when the total content delivery cost exceeds a threshold. Our competitive analysis shows a tight and optimal $\mathtt {Tiers}+1$Tiers+1 competitive ratio. Additionally, our algorithm has low complexity by passing $O(\mathtt {Tiers})$O(Tiers) number of reference messages for each request, which enhances its practical applicability. Empirical validation through numerical simulations and trace-driven experiments confirms the superiority of our approach to existing benchmarks in real-world CDN settings.
We study the online batch scheduling problem on parallel machines with delivery times. online algorithms are designed on m parallel batch machines to minimize the time by which all jobs have been delivered. When all j...
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We study the online batch scheduling problem on parallel machines with delivery times. online algorithms are designed on m parallel batch machines to minimize the time by which all jobs have been delivered. When all jobs have identical processing times, we provide the optimal online algorithms for both bounded and unbounded versions of this problem. For the general case of processing time on unbounded batch machines, an online algorithm with a competitive ratio of 2 is given when the number of machines m = 2 or m = 3, respectively. When m >= 4, we present an online algorithm with a competitive ratio of 1.5 + o(1). (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In the bin packing problem, we are asked to place given items, each being of size between zero and one, into bins of capacity one. The goal is to minimize the number of bins that contain at least one item. An online a...
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In the bin packing problem, we are asked to place given items, each being of size between zero and one, into bins of capacity one. The goal is to minimize the number of bins that contain at least one item. An online algorithm for the bin packing problem decides where to place each item one by one when it arrives. The asymptotic approximation ratio of the bin packing problem is defined as the performance of an optimal online algorithm for the problem. That value indicates the intrinsic hardness of the bin packing problem. In this paper we study the bin packing problem in which every item is of either size alpha or size beta (<= alpha). While the asymptotic approximation ratio for alpha > 1/2 was already identified, that for alpha <= 1/2 is only partially known. This paper is the first to give a lower bound on the asymptotic approximation ratio for any alpha <= 1/2, by formulating linear optimization problems. Furthermore, we derive another lower bound in a closed form by constructing dual feasible solutions.
Considering that the time of meeting the demands is very important for emergency vehicle and emergency vehicle can't reject any request, we introduce a more realistic cost form into online traveling salesman probl...
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Considering that the time of meeting the demands is very important for emergency vehicle and emergency vehicle can't reject any request, we introduce a more realistic cost form into online traveling salesman problem(OL-TSP). When a new request arrives, if the salesman can't serve the request immediately, per-unit-time cost will be generated. The goal is to minimize server's total costs(travel makespan plus the per-unit-time costs). We consider the server is a non-zealous server and show that neither deterministic nor randomized online algorithms can achieve constant competitive ratio for OL-TSP on general metric space. While on truncated line segment and uniform metric space, we prove lower bounds, and present competitive online algorithms. Especially for the case with uniform metric space, we prove an optimal Greedy algorithm.
This paper investigates the online station assignment for (commercial) electric vehicles (EVs) that request battery swapping from a central operator, i.e., in the absence of future information a battery swapping servi...
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This paper investigates the online station assignment for (commercial) electric vehicles (EVs) that request battery swapping from a central operator, i.e., in the absence of future information a battery swapping service station has to be assigned instantly to each EV upon its request. Based on EVs' locations, the availability of fully-charged batteries at service stations in the system, as well as traffic conditions, the assignment aims to minimize cost to EVs and congestion at service stations. Inspired by a polynomial-time offline solution via a bipartite matching approach, we develop an efficient and implementable online station assignment algorithm that provably achieves the tight (optimal) competitive ratio under mild conditions. Monte Carlo experiments on a real transportation network by Baidu Maps show that our algorithm performs reasonably well on realistic inputs, even with a certain amount of estimation error in parameters.
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