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We consider the problem of computing a perfect matching problem in a synchronous distributed network, where the network topology corresponds to a complete bipartite graph. The communication between nodes is restricted to activating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hugo Mirault , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan , Xianbin Zhu

Consider a distributed task where the communication network is fixed but the local inputs given to the nodes of the distributed system may change over time. In this work, we explore the following question: if some of the local inputs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Janne H. Korhonen , Ami Paz , Joel Rybicki , Stefan Schmid

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

In this paper, we study distributed graph algorithms in networks in which the nodes have a limited communication capacity. Many distributed systems are built on top of an underlying networking infrastructure, for example by using a virtual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-26 John Augustine , Mohsen Ghaffari , Robert Gmyr , Kristian Hinnenthal , Fabian Kuhn , Jason Li , Christian Scheideler

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

The $CONGEST$ model for distributed network computing is well suited for analyzing the impact of limiting the throughput of a network on its capacity to solve tasks efficiently. For many "global" problems there exists a lower bound of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Dennis Olivetti

We propose an algorithm for distributed optimization over time-varying communication networks. Our algorithm uses an optimized ratio between the number of rounds of communication and gradient evaluations to achieve fast convergence. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Given a graph and a subset of its nodes, referred to as source nodes, the minimum broadcast problem asks for the minimum number of steps in which a signal can be transmitted from the sources to all other nodes in the graph. In each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marika Ivanova , Dag Haugland , Bård Hennning Tvedt

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

The network coding problem asks whether data throughput in a network can be increased using coding (compared to treating bits as commodities in a flow). While it is well-known that a network coding advantage exists in directed graphs, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Mark Braverman , Zhongtian He

We consider global problems, i.e. problems that take at least diameter time, even when the bandwidth is not restricted. We show that all problems considered admit efficient solutions in low-treewidth graphs. By ``efficient'' we mean that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Taisuke Izumi , Naoki Kitamura , Takamasa Naruse , Gregory Schwartzman

Beeping models are models for networks of weak devices, such as sensor networks or biological networks. In these networks, nodes are allowed to communicate only via emitting beeps: unary pulses of energy. Listening nodes only the capability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Peter Davies

We consider the problem of multi-choice majority voting in a network of $n$ agents where each agent initially selects a choice from a set of $K$ possible choices. The agents try to infer the choice in majority merely by performing local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hamidreza Bandealinaeini , Saber Salehkaleybar

It has been shown that one can design distributed algorithms that are (nearly) singularly optimal, meaning they simultaneously achieve optimal time and message complexity (within polylogarithmic factors), for several fundamental global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Fabien Dufoulon , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the distributed algorithmic foundations of large-scale graph computations, we study some fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

In the load balancing problem, the input is an $n$-vertex bipartite graph $G = (C \cup S, E)$ and a positive weight for each client $c \in C$. The algorithm must assign each client $c \in C$ to an adjacent server $s \in S$. The load of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein , Zachary Langley

In distributed networks, it is often useful for the nodes to be aware of dense subgraphs, e.g., such a dense subgraph could reveal dense subtructures in otherwise sparse graphs (e.g. the World Wide Web or social networks); these might…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Atish Das Sarma , Ashwin Lall , Danupon Nanongkai , Amitabh Trehan

We study the problem of computing the minimum cut in a weighted distributed message-passing networks (the CONGEST model). Let $\lambda$ be the minimum cut, $n$ be the number of nodes in the network, and $D$ be the network diameter. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Danupon Nanongkai , Hsin-Hao Su

We study smoothed analysis of distributed graph algorithms, focusing on the fundamental minimum spanning tree (MST) problem. With the goal of studying the time complexity of distributed MST as a function of the "perturbation" of the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

Building a spanning tree, minimum spanning tree (MST), and BFS tree in a distributed network are fundamental problems which are still not fully understood in terms of time and communication cost. x The first work to succeed in computing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King