Distributed Recoloring

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.DISC.2018.12zbMATH Open1497.68369arXiv1802.06742OpenAlexW2795608362MaRDI QIDQ5090902FDOQ5090902

Marthe Bonamy, Jukka Suomela, Paul Ouvrard, Jara Uitto, Mikaël Rabie

Publication date: 21 July 2022

Abstract: Given two colorings of a graph, we consider the following problem: can we recolor the graph from one coloring to the other through a series of elementary changes, such that the graph is properly colored after each step? We introduce the notion of distributed recoloring: The input graph represents a network of computers that needs to be recolored. Initially, each node is aware of its own input color and target color. The nodes can exchange messages with each other, and eventually each node has to stop and output its own recoloring schedule, indicating when and how the node changes its color. The recoloring schedules have to be globally consistent so that the graph remains properly colored at each point, and we require that adjacent nodes do not change their colors simultaneously. We are interested in the following questions: How many communication rounds are needed (in the LOCAL model of distributed computing) to find a recoloring schedule? What is the length of the recoloring schedule? And how does the picture change if we can use extra colors to make recoloring easier? The main contributions of this work are related to distributed recoloring with one extra color in the following graph classes: trees, $3$-regular graphs, and toroidal grids.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06742

zbMATH Keywords

graph algorithmsdistributed systemslocal computations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) (68Q10) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Distributed algorithms (68W15) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10)

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