4.2 Article Proceedings Paper

An optimal maximal independent set algorithm for bounded-independence graphs

Journal

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Volume 22, Issue 5-6, Pages 349-361

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00446-010-0097-1

Keywords

Ad Hoc network; Sensor network; Radio network; Unit disk graph; Growth bounded graph; Bounded-independence graph; Local algorithm; Parallel algorithm; Maximal independent set; Maximal matching; Dominating set; Connected Dominating Set; Coloring; Symmetry breaking

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We present a novel distributed algorithm for the maximal independent set problem (This is an extended journal version of Schneider and Wattenhofer in Twenty-seventh annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on principles of distributed computing, 2008). On bounded-independence graphs our deterministic algorithm finishes in O(log* n) time, n being the number of nodes. In light of Linial's Omega(log* n) lower bound our algorithm is asymptotically optimal. Furthermore, it solves the connected dominating set problem for unit disk graphs in O(log* n) time, exponentially faster than the state-of-the-art algorithm. With a new extension our algorithm also computes a delta + 1 coloring and a maximal matching in O(log* n) time, where delta is the maximum degree of the graph.

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