On the radius of nonsplit graphs and information dissemination in dynamic networks

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DOI10.1016/J.DAM.2020.02.013zbMATH Open1441.05090arXiv1901.06824OpenAlexW3006692216MaRDI QIDQ2185751FDOQ2185751


Authors: Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Kyrill Winkler Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 June 2020

Published in: Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A nonsplit graph is a directed graph where each pair of nodes has a common incoming neighbor. We show that the radius of such graphs is in O(loglogn), where n is the number of nodes. We then generalize the result to products of nonsplit graphs. The analysis of nonsplit graph products has direct implications in the context of distributed systems, where processes operate in rounds and communicate via message passing in each round: communication graphs in several distributed systems naturally relate to nonsplit graphs and the graph product concisely represents relaying messages in such networks. Applying our results, we obtain improved bounds on the dynamic radius of such networks, i.e., the maximum number of rounds until all processes have received a message from a common process, if all processes relay messages in each round. We finally connect the dynamic radius to lower bounds for achieving consensus in dynamic networks.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06824




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