[CRV11] The First Fully Polynomial Stabilizing Algorithm for BFS Tree Construction

Conférence Internationale avec comité de lecture : 15th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December 2011, pp.159-174, Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Toulouse, France,
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Résumé: The construction of a spanning tree is a fundamental task in distributed systems which allows to resolve other tasks (i.e., routing, mutual exclusion, network reset). In this paper, we are interested in the problem of constructing a Breadth First Search (BFS) tree. \emph{Stabilization} is a versatile technique which ensures that the system recover a correct behavior from an arbitrary global state resulting from transient faults. A fully polynomial algorithm has a round complexity in $O(d^a)$ and a step complexity in $O(n^b)$ where $d$ and $n$ are the diameter and the number of nodes of the network and $a$ and $b$ are constants. We present the first fully polynomial stabilizing algorithm constructing a BFS tree under a distributed daemon. Moreover, as far as we know, it is also the first fully polynomial stabilizing algorithm for spanning tree construction. Its round complexity is in $O(d^2)$ and its step complexity is in $O(n^6)$. To our knowledge, since in general the diameter of a network is much smaller than the number of nodes ($\log(n)$ in average instead of $n$), this algorithm reaches the best compromise of the literature between the complexities in terms of rounds and in terms of steps.

Equipe: roc
Collaboration: Laboratoire MIS

BibTeX

 @inproceedings { CRV11, title = "{The First Fully Polynomial Stabilizing Algorithm for BFS Tree Construction}", author = " A. Cournier and S. Rovedakis and V. Villain ", booktitle = "{15th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS)}", year = 2011, edition = "Springer", month = "December", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", pages = "159-174", address = "Toulouse, France", }