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In content-oblivious computation, n nodes wish to compute a given task over an asynchronous network that suffers from an extremely harsh type of noise, which corrupts the content of all messages across all channels. In a recent work,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Fabian Frei , Ran Gelles , Ahmed Ghazy , Alexandre Nolin

Censor-Hillel, Cohen, Gelles, and Sela (PODC 2022 & Distributed Computing 2023) studied fully-defective asynchronous networks, where communication channels may suffer an extreme form of alteration errors, rendering messages completely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jérémie Chalopin , Yi-Jun Chang , Lyuting Chen , Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Haoran Zhou

This paper concerns designing distributed algorithms that are singularly optimal, i.e., algorithms that are simultaneously time and message optimal, for the fundamental leader election problem in networks. Our main result is a randomized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shay Kutten , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg

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

We study the problem of randomized Leader Election in synchronous distributed networks with indistinguishable nodes. We consider algorithms that work on networks of arbitrary topology in two settings, depending on whether the size of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Miguel A. Mosteiro

This paper concerns {\em randomized} leader election in synchronous distributed networks. A distributed leader election algorithm is presented for complete $n$-node networks that runs in O(1) rounds and (with high probability) uses only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Shay Kutten , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg , Peter Robinson , Amitabh Trehan

In this paper, we look at the problem of randomized leader election in synchronous distributed networks with a special focus on the message complexity. We provide an algorithm that solves the implicit version of leader election (where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Seth Gilbert , Peter Robinson , Suman Sourav

Leader election is, together with consensus, one of the most central problems in distributed computing. This paper presents a distributed algorithm, called \STT, for electing deterministically a leader in an arbitrary network, assuming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Arnaud Casteigts , Yves Métivier , John Michael Robson , Akka Zemmari

This paper concerns designing distributed algorithms that are {\em singularly optimal}, i.e., algorithms that are {\em simultaneously} time and message {\em optimal}, for the fundamental leader election problem in {\em asynchronous}…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Shay Kutten , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg

This paper presents a randomized self-stabilizing algorithm that elects a leader $r$ in a general $n$-node undirected graph and constructs a spanning tree $T$ rooted at $r$. The algorithm works under the synchronous message passing network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xavier Défago , Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Yasumasa Tamura

The problem of electing a leader from among $n$ contenders is one of the fundamental questions in distributed computing. In its simplest formulation, the task is as follows: given $n$ processors, all participants must eventually return a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Dan Alistarh , Rati Gelashvili , Adrian Vladu

This paper focuses on compact deterministic self-stabilizing solutions for the leader election problem. When the protocol is required to be \emph{silent} (i.e., when communication content remains fixed from some point in time during any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Lélia Blin , Sébastien Tixeuil

We present a self-stabilizing leader election algorithm for arbitrary networks, with space-complexity $O(\max\{\log \Delta, \log \log n\})$ bits per node in $n$-node networks with maximum degree~$\Delta$. This space complexity is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Lélia Blin , Sébastien Tixeuil

Given a boolean predicate $\Pi$ on labeled networks (e.g., proper coloring, leader election, etc.), a self-stabilizing algorithm for $\Pi$ is a distributed algorithm that can start from any initial configuration of the network (i.e., every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lélia Blin , Laurent Feuilloley , Gabriel Le Bouder

We consider leader election in clique networks, where $n$ nodes are connected by point-to-point communication links. For the synchronous clique under simultaneous wake-up, i.e., where all nodes start executing the algorithm in round $1$, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Shay Kutten , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan , Xianbin Zhu

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

In this paper, we investigate the leader election problem in diameter-two networks. Recently, Chatterjee et al. [DC 2020] studied the leader election in diameter-two networks. They presented a $O(\log n)$-round deterministic {implicit}…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

We propose a self-stabilizing leader election protocol on directed rings in the model of population protocols. Given an upper bound $N$ on the population size $n$, the proposed protocol elects a unique leader within $O(nN)$ expected steps…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Daisuke Yokota , Yuichi Sudo , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

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

We consider the energy complexity of the leader election problem in the single-hop radio network model, where each device has a unique identifier in $\{1, 2, \ldots, N\}$. Energy is a scarce resource for small battery-powered devices. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi-Jun Chang , Ran Duan , Shunhua Jiang
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