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We introduce collision free layerings as a powerful way to structure radio networks. These layerings can replace hard-to-compute BFS-trees in many contexts while having an efficient randomized distributed construction. We demonstrate their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

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

We present a new algorithm for generating a uniformly random spanning tree in an undirected graph. Our algorithm samples such a tree in expected $\tilde{O}(m^{4/3})$ time. This improves over the best previously known bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Aleksander Madry , Damian Straszak , Jakub Tarnawski

Self-stabilization is a versatile fault-tolerance approach that characterizes the ability of a system to eventually resume a correct behavior after any finite number of transient faults. In this paper, we propose a self-stabilizing reset…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Stéphane Devismes , Colette Johnen

Consider a fully-connected synchronous distributed system consisting of $n$ nodes, where up to $f$ nodes may be faulty and every node starts in an arbitrary initial state. In the synchronous $C$-counting problem, all nodes need to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Christoph Lenzen , Joel Rybicki

The Binary Space Partitioning-Tree~(BSP-Tree) process was recently proposed as an efficient strategy for space partitioning tasks. Because it uses more than one dimension to partition the space, the BSP-Tree Process is more efficient and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Xuhui Fan , Bin Li , Scott A. Sisson

Nodes in route-restricted overlays have an immutable set of neighbors, explicitly specified by their users. Popular examples include payment networks such as the Lightning network as well as social overlays such as the Dark Freenet. Routing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Martin Byrenheid , Stefanie Roos , Thorsten Strufe

Enumerating consistent global states of a computation is a fundamental problem in parallel computing with applications to debug- ging, testing and runtime verification of parallel programs. Breadth-first search (BFS) enumeration is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Himanshu Chauhan , Vijay Garg

The Maximum (Minimum) Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks for a spanning tree with the largest (smallest) number of leaves. As spanning trees are often computed using graph search algorithms, it is natural to restrict this problem to the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jesse Beisegel , Ekkehard Köhler , Robert Scheffler , Martin Strehler

Breadth-first Search (BFS) is one of the most important graph processing subroutines, especially for computing the unweighted distance. Many applications may require running BFS from multiple sources. Sequentially, when running BFS on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Letong Wang , Guy Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We describe a synchronous distributed algorithm which identifies the edge-biconnected components of a connected network. It requires a leader, and uses messages of size O(log |V|). The main idea is to preorder a BFS spanning tree, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Pritchard

In a variety of applications, we need to keep track of the development of a data set over time. For maintaining and querying this multi version data I/O-efficiently, external memory data structures are required. In this paper, we present a…

General Literature · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Saju Jude Dominic , G. Sajith

In this paper, we consider the message forwarding problem that consists in managing the network resources that are used to forward messages. Previous works on this problem provide solutions that either use a significant number of buffers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-01 Alain Cournier , Swan Dubois , Anissa Lamani , Franck Petit , Vincent Villain

We present a new algorithm, which solves the problem of distributively finding a minimum diameter spanning tree of any (non-negatively) real-weighted graph $G = (V,E,\omega)$. As an intermediate step, we use a new, fast, linear-time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Marc Bui , Franck Butelle , Christian Lavault

The semi-streaming model is a variant of the streaming model frequently used for the computation of graph problems. It allows the edges of an $n$-node input graph to be read sequentially in $p$ passes using $\tilde{O}(n)$ space. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yi-Jun Chang , Martin Farach-Colton , Tsan-Sheng Hsu , Meng-Tsung Tsai

Consider a complete communication network of $n$ nodes, where the nodes receive a common clock pulse. We study the synchronous $c$-counting problem: given any starting state and up to $f$ faulty nodes with arbitrary behaviour, the task is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Christoph Lenzen , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela

We develop a family of stabilized backward differentiation formula (sBDF) schemes of orders one through four for semilinear parabolic equations. The proposed methods are designed to achieve three properties that are rarely available…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Haishen Dai , Huan Lei , Bin Zheng

We study the self-stabilizing leader election problem in anonymous $n$-nodes networks. Achieving self-stabilization with low space memory complexity is particularly challenging, and designing space-optimal leader election algorithms remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lelia Blin , Sylvain Gay , Isabella Ziccardi

The most common strategy for enabling a process in a distributed system to broadcast a message is one-to-all communication. However, this approach is not scalable, as it places a heavy load on the sender. This work presents an autonomic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Luiz A. Rodrigues , Elias P. Duarte , Luciana Arantes

Due to its broad applications in practice, the minimum spanning tree problem and its all kinds of variations have been studied extensively during the last decades, for which a host of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yang Xu , Lianmin Zhang