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Throughput maximization for periodic packet scheduling
Peis, Britta; Wiese, Andreas
Preprint-Reihe des Instituts für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin
In the periodic packet routing problem a number of tasks periodically create packets which have to be transported through a network. Due to capacity constraints on the edges, it might not be possible to find a schedule which delivers all packets of all tasks in a feasible way. In this case one aims to find a feasible schedule for as many tasks as possible, or, if weights on the tasks are given, for a subset of tasks of maximal weight. In this paper we investigate this problem on trees and grids with row-column paths. We distinguish between direct schedules (i.e., schedules in which each packet is delayed only in its start vertex) and not necessarily direct schedules. For these settings we present constant factor approximation algorithms, separately for the weighted and the cardinality case.
