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We study a multi-call variant of the classic PUSH&PULL rumor spreading process where nodes can contact $k$ of their neighbors instead of a single one during both PUSH and PULL operations. We show that rumor spreading can be made faster at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Tijn de Vos

For a rumour spreading protocol, the spread time is defined as the first time that everyone learns the rumour. We compare the synchronous push&pull rumour spreading protocol with its asynchronous variant, and show that for any $n$-vertex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Omer Angel , Abbas Mehrabian , Yuval Peres

Information dissemination is a fundamental problem in parallel and distributed computing. In its simplest variant, the broadcasting problem, a message has to be spread among all nodes of a graph. A prominent communication protocol for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Robert Elsässer , Dominik Kaaser

We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks one node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network. We present the first protocol for any expander graph $G$ with $n$ nodes such that, the protocol informs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Zeyu Guo , He Sun

We give a time-randomness tradeoff for the quasi-random rumor spreading protocol proposed by Doerr, Friedrich and Sauerwald [SODA 2008] on complete graphs. In this protocol, the goal is to spread a piece of information originating from one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Benjamin Doerr , Mahmoud Fouz

We propose and analyze a quasirandom analogue of the classical push model for disseminating information in networks ("randomized rumor spreading"). In the classical model, in each round each informed vertex chooses a neighbor at random and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

Randomized rumor spreading is a classical protocol to disseminate information across a network. At SODA 2008, a quasirandom version of this protocol was proposed and competitive bounds for its run-time were proven. This prompts the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Benjamin Doerr , Anna Huber , Ariel Levavi

We study a gossip protocol called forwarding without repeating (FWR). The objective is to spread multiple rumors over a graph as efficiently as possible. FWR accomplishes this by having nodes record which messages they have forwarded to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Vincent Gripon , Vitaly Skachek , Michael Rabbat

We study the relation between the performance of the randomized rumor spreading (push model) in a d-regular graph G and the performance of the same algorithm in the percolated graph G_p. We show that if the push model successfully broadcast…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-06 Roberto I. Oliveira , Alan Prata

We study the problem of randomized information dissemination in networks. We compare the now standard PUSH-PULL protocol, with agent-based alternatives where information is disseminated by a collection of agents performing independent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 George Giakkoupis , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Hayk Saribekyan

We consider the problem of reliable epidemic dissemination of a rumor in a fully connected network of~$n$ processes using push and pull operations. We revisit the random phone call model and show that it is possible to disseminate a rumor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Hugues Mercier , Laurent Hayez , Miguel Matos

We model the transmission of information of a message on the Erd\"os-R\'eny random graph with parameters $(n,p)$ and limited resources. The vertices of the graph represent servers that may broadcast a message at random. Each server has a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Francis Comets , Christophe Gallesco , Serguei Popov , Marina Vachkovskaia

Consider the classical problem of information dissemination: one (or more) nodes in a network have some information that they want to distribute to the remainder of the network. In this paper, we study the cost of information dissemination…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Suman Sourav , Peter Robinson , Seth Gilbert

This paper studies reliability of probabilistic neighbor-aware gossip algorithms over three well- known large-scale random topologies, namely Bernoulli (or Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi) graph, the random geometric graph, and the scale-free graph. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ruijing Hu , Leander Jehl

A temporal random geometric graph is a random geometric graph in which all edges are endowed with a uniformly random time-stamp, representing the time of interaction between vertices. In such graphs, paths with increasing time stamps…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Anna Brandenberger , Serte Donderwinkel , Céline Kerriou , Gábor Lugosi , Rivka Mitchell

We consider the classical push broadcast process on a large class of sparse random multigraphs that includes random power law graphs and multigraphs. Our analysis shows that for every $\varepsilon>0$, whp $O(\log n)$ rounds are sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Meier Florian , Peter Ueli

We study push-pull rumour spreading in ultra-small-world models for social networks where the degrees follow a power-law distribution. In a non-geometric setting, Fountoulakis, Panagiotou and Sauerwald have shown that rumours always spread…

Consider a fully connected network of nodes, some of which have a piece of data to be disseminated to the whole network. We analyze the following push-type epidemic algorithm: in each push round, every node that has the data, i.e., every…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Mine Caglar , Ali Devin Sezer

We study rumor spreading in dynamic random graphs. Starting with a single informed vertex, the information flows until it reaches all the vertices of the graph (completion), according to the following process. At each step $k$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Vicenzo Bonasorte

Broadcasting algorithms are of fundamental importance for distributed systems engineering. In this paper we revisit the classical and well-studied push protocol for message broadcasting. Assuming that initially only one node has some piece…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Anna Huber , Konstantinos Panagiotou