Local Computation

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Publication:3177774

DOI10.1145/2742012zbMATH Open1426.68092arXiv1011.5470OpenAlexW1957963525MaRDI QIDQ3177774FDOQ3177774

Roger Wattenhofer, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda

Publication date: 2 August 2018

Published in: Journal of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a emph{distributed} fashion. More precisely, if nodes of a network must base their decision on information in their local neighborhood only, how well can they compute or approximate a global (optimization) problem? In this paper we give the first poly-logarithmic lower bound on such local computation for (optimization) problems including minimum vertex cover, minimum (connected) dominating set, maximum matching, maximal independent set, and maximal matching. In addition we present a new distributed algorithm for solving general covering and packing linear programs. For some problems this algorithm is tight with the lower bounds, for others it is a distributed approximation scheme. Together, our lower and upper bounds establish the local computability and approximability of a large class of problems, characterizing how much local information is required to solve these tasks.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5470






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