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In the ad-hoc radio network model, nodes communicate with their neighbors via radio signals, without knowing the topology of the graph. We study the information gathering problem, where each node has a piece of information called a rumor,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Marek Chrobak , Kevin Costello , Leszek Gasieniec

We consider a gossip network consisting of a source generating updates and $n$ nodes connected in a two-dimensional square grid. The source keeps updates of a process, that might be generated or observed, and shares them with the grid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus

Distributed gossip algorithm has been studied in literature for practical implementation of the distributed consensus algorithm as a fundamental algorithm for the purpose of in-network collaborative processing. This paper focuses on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Saber Jafarizadeh

A randomized distributed algorithm called RAES was introduced in [Becchetti et al., SODA 2020] to extract a bounded-degree expander from a dense $n$-vertex expander graph $G = (V, E)$. The algorithm relies on a simple threshold-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Flora Angileri , Andrea Clementi , Emanuele Natale , Michele Salvi , Isabella Ziccardi

Graph spanners are sparse subgraphs which approximately preserve all pairwise shortest-path distances in an input graph. The notion of approximation can be additive, multiplicative, or both, and many variants of this problem have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Manuel Fernandez , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

The randomized rumor spreading problem generates a big interest in the area of distributed algorithms due to its simplicity, robustness and wide range of applications. The two most popular communication paradigms used for spreading the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Christopher Thraves Caro

We consider gossip networks consisting of a source that maintains the current version of a file, $n$ nodes that use asynchronous gossip mechanisms to disseminate fresh information in the network, and an oblivious adversary who infects the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

In recent years, the problem of computing the frequencies of the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs of a graph, or \emph{$k$-graphlets}, has become central. One approach for this problem is to sample $k$-graphlets randomly. Classic algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Marco Bressan , T-H. Hubert Chan , Qipeng Kuang , Mauro Sozio

We study the dispersion problem in anonymous port-labeled graphs: $k \leq n$ mobile agents, each with a unique ID and initially located arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, must autonomously relocate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Gossip protocols aim at arriving, by means of point-to-point or group communications, at a situation in which all the agents know each other's secrets. We consider distributed gossip protocols which are expressed by means of epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Krzysztof R. Apt , Davide Grossi , Wiebe van der Hoek

In this work we address the question how important is the knowledge of geometric location and network density to the efficiency of (distributed) wireless communication in ad hoc networks. We study fundamental communication task of broadcast…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Michal Rozanski , Grzegorz Stachowiak

We present a distributed self-adjusting algorithm for skip graphs that minimizes the average routing costs between arbitrary communication pairs by performing topological adaptation to the communication pattern. Our algorithm is fully…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sikder Huq , Sukumar Ghosh

Diffusion is a fundamental graph process, underpinning such phenomena as epidemic disease contagion and the spread of innovation by word-of-mouth. We address the algorithmic problem of finding a set of k initial seed nodes in a network so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Christian Borgs , Michael Brautbar , Jennifer Chayes , Brendan Lucier

In this work we address the question of efficiency of distributed computing in anonymous, congested and highly dynamic and not-always-connected networks/systems. More precisely, the system consists of an unknown number of anonymous nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Miguel A. Mosteiro

We investigate how suitable a weighted network is for gossip spreading. The proposed model is based on the gossip spreading model introduced by Lind et.al. on unweighted networks. Weight represents "friendship." Potential spreader prefers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

In the advent of large-scale multi-hop wireless technologies, such as MANET, VANET, iThings, it is of utmost importance to devise efficient distributed protocols to maintain network architecture and provide basic communication tools. One of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Tomasz Maciejewski , Grzegorz Stachowiak

We study the single-message broadcast problem in dynamic radio networks. We show that the time complexity of the problem depends on the amount of stability and connectivity of the dynamic network topology and on the adaptiveness of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Mohamad Ahmadi , Abdolhamid Ghodselahi , Fabian Kuhn , Anisur Rahaman Molla

The dispersion problem has received much attention recently in the distributed computing literature. In this problem, $k\leq n$ agents placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node, $m$-edge anonymous graph of maximum degree…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Many of today's most pressing issues require a more robust understanding of how information spreads in populations. Current models of information spread can be thought of as falling into one of two varieties: epidemiologically-inspired…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-03 Sagar Kumar , Moritz Laber , Maimuna S. Majumder , Brooke Foucault Welles