Title
Sleep with Guilt and Work Faster to Minimize Flow Plus Energy
Abstract
In this paper we extend the study of flow-energy scheduling to a model that allows both sleep management and speed scaling. Our main result is a sleep management algorithm called IdleLonger, which works online for a processor with one or multiple levels of sleep states. The design of IdleLonger is interesting; among others, it may force the processor to idle or even sleep even though new jobs have already arrived. IdleLonger works in both clairvoyant and non-clairvoyant settings. We show how to adapt two existing speed scaling algorithms AJC [15] (clairvoyant) and LAPS [9] (non-clairvoyant) to the new model. The adapted algorithms, when coupled with IdleLonger, are shown to be O(1)-competitive clairvoyant and non-clairvoyant algorithms for minimizing flow plus energy on a processor that allows sleep management and speed scaling. The above results are based on the traditional model with no limit on processor speed. If the processor has a maximum speed, the problem becomes more difficult as the processor, once overslept, cannot rely on unlimited extra speed to catch up the delay. Nevertheless, we are able to enhance IdleLonger and AJC so that they remain O (1)-competitive for flow plus energy under the bounded speed model. Non-clairvoyant scheduling in the bounded speed model is left as an open problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02927-1_55
ICALP
Keywords
Field
DocType
speed scaling,minimize flow plus energy,sleep management algorithm,unlimited extra speed,new model,existing speed,sleep management,work faster,sleep state,processor speed,bounded speed model,maximum speed
Discrete mathematics,Open problem,Speed scaling,Computer science,Idle,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Flow (psychology),Real-time computing,Clock rate,Competitive analysis,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5555
0302-9743
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.71
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tak-Wah Lam11860164.96
Lap-Kei Lee240621.59
Hing-Fung Ting31078.17
Isaac K. K. To41326.41
Prudence W. Wong5754.46