On the Distributed Construction of Stable Networks in Polylogarithmic Parallel Time

Autor: Matthew Connor, Othon Michail, Paul Spirakis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Information, Vol 12, Iss 6, p 254 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2078-2489
DOI: 10.3390/info12060254
Popis: We study the class of networks, which can be created in polylogarithmic parallel time by network constructors: groups of anonymous agents that interact randomly under a uniform random scheduler with the ability to form connections between each other. Starting from an empty network, the goal is to construct a stable network that belongs to a given family. We prove that the class of trees where each node has any k≥2 children can be constructed in O(logn) parallel time with high probability. We show that constructing networks that are k-regular is Ω(n) time, but a minimal relaxation to (l,k)-regular networks, where l=k−1, can be constructed in polylogarithmic parallel time for any fixed k, where k>2. We further demonstrate that when the finite-state assumption is relaxed and k is allowed to grow with n, then k=loglogn acts as a threshold above which network construction is, again, polynomial time. We use this to provide a partial characterisation of the class of polylogarithmic time network constructors.
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