Monge strikes again: optimal placement of web proxies in the internet

Monge strikes again: optimal placement of web proxies in the internet

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Article ID: iaor2006273
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 27
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 93
End Page Number: 96
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Journal: Operations Research Letters
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Keywords: optimization
Abstract:

In a recent paper, Li et al. study the problem of placing m web proxies in the internet under a given traffic pattern. They consider the special case of a linear net topology with n nodes. Their goal is to minimize the overall latency of accessing the target web server subject to the network resources and traffic pattern. They show how this problem can be solved in O(n2m) time. In this short note, we observe that one of the underlying cost functions in this problem carries a Monge structure. By exploiting this structure and by applying some well-known results from the literature, we get a faster algorithm with time complexity O(nm).

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