Scheduling in the presence of processor networks : complexity and approximation.

Autor: Boudet, Vincent, Cohen, Johanne, Giroudeau, Rodolphe, König, Jean-Claude
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Zdroj: RAIRO -- Operations Research; Jan2012, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p1-22, 22p
Abstrakt: In this paper, we study the problem of makespan minimization for the multiprocessor scheduling problem in the presence of communication delays. The communication delay between two tasks i and j depends on the distance between the two processors on which these two tasks are executed. Lahlou shows that a simple polynomial-time algorithm exists when the length of the schedule is at most two (the problem becomes 풩풫-complete when the length of the schedule is at most three). We prove that there is no polynomial-time algorithm with a performance guarantee of less than 4/3 (unless 풫 = 풩풫) to minimize the makespan when the network topology is a chain or ring and the precedence graph is a bipartite graph of depth one. We also develop two polynomial-time approximation algorithms with constant ratio dedicated to cases where the processor network admits a limited or unlimited number of processors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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