The locality of distributed symmetry breaking

L Barenboim, M Elkin, S Pettie… - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2016 - dl.acm.org
Symmetry-breaking problems are among the most well studied in the field of distributed
computing and yet the most fundamental questions about their complexity remain open. In …

An exponential separation between randomized and deterministic complexity in the LOCAL model

YJ Chang, T Kopelowitz, S Pettie - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2019 - SIAM
Over the past 30 years numerous algorithms have been designed for symmetry breaking
problems in the LOCAL model, such as maximal matching, MIS, vertex coloring, and edge …

Distributed (∆+ 1)-coloring in sublogarithmic rounds

DG Harris, J Schneider, HH Su - Proceedings of the forty-eighth annual …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The (∆+ 1)-coloring problem is a fundamental symmetry breaking problem in distributed
computing. We give a new randomized coloring algorithm for (∆+ 1)-coloring running in O …

Deterministic distributed edge-coloring via hypergraph maximal matching

M Fischer, M Ghaffari, F Kuhn - 2017 IEEE 58th Annual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a (2Δ-1)-edge-coloring, or
even list-edge-coloring, in any n-node graph with maximum degree Δ, in O (log 8 Δ· log n) …

Distributed∆-coloring plays hide-and-seek

A Balliu, S Brandt, F Kuhn, D Olivetti - … of the 54th Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We prove several new tight or near-tight distributed lower bounds for classic symmetry
breaking problems in graphs. As a basic tool, we first provide a new insightful proof that any …

Distributed lower bounds for ruling sets

A Balliu, S Brandt, D Olivetti - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2022 - SIAM
Given a graph G=(V,E), an (α,β)-ruling set is a subset S⊆V such that the distance between
any two vertices in S is at least α, and the distance between any vertex in V and the closest …

Stone age distributed computing

Y Emek, R Wattenhofer - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM symposium on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
A new model that depicts a network of randomized finite state machines operating in an
asynchronous environment is introduced. This model, that can be viewed as a hybrid of the …

LCL problems on grids

S Brandt, J Hirvonen, JH Korhonen… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
LCLs or locally checkable labelling problems (eg maximal independent set, maximal
matching, and vertex colouring) in the LOCAL model of computation are very well …

Toward more localized local algorithms: removing assumptions concerning global knowledge

A Korman, JS Sereni, L Viennot - Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Numerous sophisticated local algorithm were suggested in the literature for various
fundamental problems. Notable examples are the MIS and (Δ+ 1)-coloring algorithms by …

An energy-efficient, self-stabilizing and distributed algorithm for maximal independent set construction in wireless sensor networks

O Arapoglu, VK Akram, O Dagdeviren - Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2019 - Elsevier
Maximal independent set (MIS) is a very important structure that provides data aggregation,
topology control and routing for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Energy-efficient and fault …