Mixed Materials
Classification of distributed binary labeling problems
| Title: | Classification of distributed binary labeling problems |
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| Additional Titles: | We present a complete classification of the deterministic distributed time complexity for a family of graph problems: binary labeling problems in trees. These are locally checkable problems that can be encoded with an alphabet of size two in the edge labeling formalism. Examples of binary labeling problems include sinkless orientation, sinkless and sourceless orientation, 2-vertex coloring, perfect matching, and the task of coloring edges red and blue such that all nodes are incident to at least one red and at least one blue edge. More generally, we can encode e.g. any cardinality constraints on indegrees and outdegrees. We study the deterministic time complexity of solving a given binary labeling problem in trees, in the usual LOCAL model of distributed computing. We show that the complexity of any such problem is in one of the following classes: $O(1)$, $Θ(\log n)$, $Θ(n)$, or unsolvable. In particular, a problem that can be represented in the binary labeling formalism cannot have time complexity $Θ(\log^* n)$, and hence we know that e.g. any encoding of maximal matchings has to use at least three labels (which is tight). Furthermore, given the description of any binary labeling problem, we can easily determine in which of the four classes it is and what is an asymptotically optimal algorithm for solving it. Hence the distributed time complexity of binary labeling problems is decidable, not only in principle, but also in practice: there is a simple and efficient algorithm that takes the description of a binary labeling problem and outputs its distributed time complexity. |
| Authors: | Balliu, Alkida, Brandt, Sebastian, Efron, Yuval, Hirvonen, Juho, Maus, Yannic, Olivetti, Dennis, Suomela, Jukka |
| Publisher Information: | 2019-11-29 2020-02-18 |
| Document Type: | Mixed materials |
| Index Terms: | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, Computational Complexity, text |
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| Availability: | Open access content. Open access content |
| Other Numbers: | COO oai:arXiv.org:1911.13294 1228379601 |
| Contributing Source: | CORNELL UNIV From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Accession Number: | edsoai.on1228379601 |
| Database: | OAIster |
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