Dynamic Balanced Graph Partitioning

Dynamic Balanced Graph Partitioning

Abstract

This paper initiates the study of the classic balanced graph partitioning problem from an online perspective: Given an arbitrary sequence of pairwise communication requests between n nodes, with patterns that may change over time, the objective is to service these requests efficiently by partitioning the nodes into ` clusters, each of size k, such that frequently communicating nodes are located in the same cluster. The partitioning can be updated dynamically by migrating nodes between clusters. The goal is to devise online algorithms which jointly minimize the amount of inter-cluster communication and migration cost. The problem features interesting connections to other well-known online problems. For example, scenarios with ` = 2 generalize online paging, and scenarios with k = 2 constitute a novel online variant of maximum matching. We present several lower bounds and algorithms for settings both with and without cluster-size augmentation. In particular, we prove that any deterministic online algorithm has a competitive ratio of at least k, even with significant augmentation. Our main algorithmic contributions are an O(k log k)-competitive deterministic algorithm for the general setting with constant augmentation, and a constant competitive algorithm for the maximum matching variant.

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Authors
  • Avin, Chen
  • Bienkowski, Marcin
  • Loukas, Andreas
  • Pacut, Maciej
  • Schmid, Stefan
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Category
Journal Paper
Divisions
Communication Technologies
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Journal or Publication Title
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
ISSN
0895-4801
Date
2019
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