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We consider networks of small, autonomous devices that communicate with each other wirelessly. Minimizing energy usage is an important consideration in designing algorithms for such networks, as battery life is a crucial and limited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Varsha Dani , Aayush Gupta , Thomas P. Hayes , Seth Pettie

This paper presents a randomized Las Vegas distributed algorithm that constructs a minimum spanning tree (MST) in weighted networks with optimal (up to polylogarithmic factors) time and message complexity. This algorithm runs in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for frequency offsets estimation in decentralized systems. With the proposed algorithm, each node estimates its frequency offsets by local computations and limited exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

Humans are very good at optimizing solutions for specific problems. Biological processes, on the other hand, have evolved to handle multiple constrained distributed environments and so they are robust and adaptable. Inspired by observations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yehuda Afek , Noga Alon , Ziv Bar-Joseph

We continue the recent line of research studying information dissemination problems in adversarial dynamic radio networks. We give two generic algorithms which allow to transform generalized version of single-message broadcast algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mohamad Ahmadi , Fabian Kuhn

Theoreticians have studied distributed algorithms in the radio network model for close to three decades. A significant fraction of this work focuses on lower bounds for basic communication problems such as wake-up (symmetry breaking among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Calvin Newport

In distributed systems, situations often arise where some nodes each holds a collection of tokens, and all nodes collectively need to determine whether all tokens are distinct. For example, if each token represents a logged-in user, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Sirui Bai , Xinyu Fu , Xudong Wu , Penghui Yao , Chaodong Zheng

Distributed graph algorithms that separately optimize for either the number of rounds used or the total number of messages sent have been studied extensively. However, algorithms simultaneously efficient with respect to both measures have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Bernhard Haeupler , D. Ellis Hershkowitz , David Wajc

We study the message complexity of leader election in synchronous networks of diameter two. Our main contribution is a refined analysis of the randomized algorithm proposed by Chatterjee et al. [DC, 2020]. In their work, the authors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abhijit Sadhukhan , Adri Bhattacharya , Anisur Rahaman Molla

Graph spanners are fundamental graph structures with a wide range of applications in distributed networks. We consider a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over every edge (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ofer Grossman , Merav Parter

We consider distributed optimization over orthogonal collision channels in spatial random access networks. Users are spatially distributed and each user is in the interference range of a few other users. Each user is allowed to transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedich , R. Srikant

In the distributed triangle detection problem, we have an $n$-vertex network $G=(V,E)$ with one player for each vertex of the graph who sees the edges incident on the vertex. The players communicate in synchronous rounds using the edges of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

We present improved deterministic distributed algorithms for a number of well-studied matching problems, which are simpler, faster, more accurate, and/or more general than their known counterparts. The common denominator of these results is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Manuela Fischer

In this paper we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving linear programming problems subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Roland Bouffanais

We study the problem of assigning transmission ranges to radio stations placed arbitrarily in a $d$-dimensional ($d$-D) Euclidean space in order to achieve a strongly connected communication network with minimum total power consumption. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Paz Carmi , Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmi

In this paper, we adopt a new noisy wireless network model introduced very recently by Censor-Hillel et al. in [ACM PODC 2017, CHHZ17]. More specifically, for a given noise parameter $p\in [0,1],$ any sender has a probability of $p$ of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Qin Xin , Yan Xia

In this paper we improve the deterministic complexity of two fundamental communication primitives in the classical model of ad-hoc radio networks with unknown topology: broadcasting and wake-up. We consider an unknown radio network, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies

In this paper, we propose solutions for the energy-efficient broadcasting over cross networks, where N nodes are located on two perpendicular lines. Our solutions consist of an algorithm which finds the optimal range assignment in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Mohammad R. Ataei , Amir H. Banihashemi , Thomas Kunz

We consider two fundamental communication tasks in arbitrary radio networks: broadcasting (information from one source has to reach all nodes) and gossiping (every node has a message and all messages have to reach all nodes). Nodes are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Adam Gańczorz , Tomasz Jurdziński , Andrzej Pelc

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais