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We study the shared processor scheduling problem with a single shared processor where a unit time saving (weight) obtained by processing a job on the shared processor depends on the job. A polynomial-time optimization algorithm has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak

Two processors output correlated sequences using the help of a coordinator with whom they individually share independent randomness. For the case of unlimited shared randomness, we characterize the rate of communication required from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Gowtham R. Kurri , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Anand D. Sarwate

The population protocol model is a computational model for passive mobile agents. We address the leader election problem, which determines a unique leader on arbitrary communication graphs starting from any configuration. Unfortunately,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Haruki Kanaya , Ryota Eguchi , Taisho Sasada , Michiko Inoue

Population protocols are a fundamental model in distributed computing, where many nodes with bounded memory and computational power have random pairwise interactions over time. This model has been studied in a rich body of literature aiming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Simina Branzei , Yuval Peres

Shared Memory is a mechanism that allows several processes to communicate with each other by accessing -- writing or reading -- a set of variables that they have in common. A Consistency Model defines how each process observes the state of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Jordi Bataller Mascarell

Distributed algorithms enable private Optimal Power Flow (OPF) computations by avoiding the need in sharing sensitive information localized in algorithms sub-problems. However, adversaries can still infer this information from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Vladimir Dvorkin , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Jalal Kazempour , Pierre Pinson

We consider the problem of making distributed computations robust to noise, in particular to worst-case (adversarial) corruptions of messages. We give a general distributed interactive coding scheme which simulates any asynchronous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Keren Censor-Hillel , Ran Gelles , Bernhard Haeupler

We propose distributed algorithms for two well-established problems that operate efficiently under extremely harsh conditions. Our algorithms achieve state-of-the-art performance in a simple and novel way. Our algorithm for maximal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Peter Jeavons , Alex Scott , Lei Xu

We consider the problem of slotted asynchronous coded communication, where in each time frame (slot), the transmitter is either silent or transmits a codeword from a given (randomly selected) codebook. The task of the decoder is to decide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Neri Merhav

Counting triangles in a graph and incident to each vertex is a fundamental and frequently considered task of graph analysis. We consider how to efficiently do this for huge graphs using massively parallel distributed-memory machines.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Peter Sanders , Tim Niklas Uhl

Self-stabilizing protocols enable distributed systems to recover correct behavior starting from any arbitrary configuration. In particular, when processors communicate by message passing, fake messages may be placed in communication links…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Lélia Blin , Anaïs Durand , Sébastien Tixeuil

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

In this work, we study the fundamental naming and counting problems (and some variations) in networks that are anonymous, unknown, and possibly dynamic. In counting, nodes must determine the size of the network n and in naming they must end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Othon Michail , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Paul G. Spirakis

We consider the fundamental problem of assigning distinct labels to agents in the probabilistic model of population protocols. Our protocols operate under the assumption that the size $n$ of the population is embedded in the transition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Leszek Gasieniec , Jesper Jansson , Christos Levcopoulos , Andrzej Lingas

Unlimited asynchronism is intolerable in real physically distributed computer systems. Such systems, synchronous or not, use clocks and timeouts. Therefore the magnitudes of elapsed absolute time in the system need to satisfy the axiom of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-06-04 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Multireader shared registers are basic objects used as communication medium in asynchronous concurrent computation. We propose a surprisingly simple and natural scheme to obtain several wait-free constructions of bounded 1-writer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

Starting with Michail, Chatzigiannakis, and Spirakis work, the problem of Counting the number of nodes in Anonymous Dynamic Networks has attracted a lot of attention. The problem is challenging because nodes are indistinguishable (they lack…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Miguel A. Mosteiro

We propose a model for deterministic distributed function computation by a network of identical and anonymous nodes. In this model, each node has bounded computation and storage capabilities that do not grow with the network size.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Julien M. Hendrickx , Alex Olshevsky , John N. Tsitsiklis

The problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a totally distributed manner, where nodes do not have unique identities and make decisions based only on local information, has applications in sensor, peer-to-peer,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Damon Mosk-Aoyama , Devavrat Shah

The problem of dispersion of mobile robots on a graph asks that $n$ robots initially placed arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph, autonomously move to reach a final configuration where exactly each node has at most one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Anisur Rahaman Molla , Kaushik Mondal , William K. Moses