Brief announcement: Message reduction in the LOCAL model is a free lunch

Shimon Bitton, Yuval Emek, Taisuke Izumi, Shay Kutten

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Abstract

A new spanner construction algorithm is presented, working under the LOCAL model assuming unique edge IDs. Given an n-node communication graph, a spanner with a constant stretch and (n1 + c) edges (for any small constant c > 0) is constructed efficiently - - i.e., in a constant number of rounds and a message complexity of (n1 + 2c) whp. One of the many known applications of spanners is for reducing the number of messages of various algorithms. However, usually, one still needs to pay the cost of constructing the spanner. Due to the efficiency of the spanner construction here, we show that every t-round LOCAL algorithm can be transformed into a randomized one with the same asymptotic time complexity and (t2n1 + O(1/log t)) message complexity. All previous message-reduction schemes for LOCAL algorithms incur either an O(log n)-multiplicative or an O(polylog (n))-additive blow-up of the round complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPODC 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Pages300-302
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362177
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jul 2019
Event38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 29 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

Conference38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period29/07/192/08/19

Keywords

  • Distributed algorithm
  • Local Model
  • Spanner

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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