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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.6
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-148086
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14808/
Assadi, Sepehr ;
Dudeja, Aditi
Ruling Sets in Random Order and Adversarial Streams
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to understand the complexity of a key symmetry breaking problem, namely the (α,β)-ruling set problem in the graph streaming model. Given a graph G = (V,E), an (α, β)-ruling set is a subset I ⊆ V such that the distance between any two vertices in I is at least α and the distance between a vertex in V and the closest vertex in I is at most β. This is a fundamental problem in distributed computing where it finds applications as a useful subroutine for other problems such as maximal matching, distributed colouring, or shortest paths. Additionally, it is a generalization of MIS, which is a (2,1)-ruling set.
Our main results are two algorithms for (2,2)-ruling sets:
1) In adversarial streams, where the order in which edges arrive is arbitrary, we give an algorithm with Õ(n^{4/3}) space, improving upon the best known algorithm due to Konrad et al. [DISC 2019], with space Õ(n^{3/2}).
2) In random-order streams, where the edges arrive in a random order, we give a semi-streaming algorithm, that is an algorithm that takes Õ(n) space. Finally, we present new algorithms and lower bounds for (α,β)-ruling sets for other values of α and β. Our algorithms improve and generalize the previous work of Konrad et al. [DISC 2019] for (2,β)-ruling sets, while our lower bound establishes the impossibility of obtaining any non-trivial streaming algorithm for (α,α-1)-ruling sets for all even α > 2.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{assadi_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2021.6,
author = {Assadi, Sepehr and Dudeja, Aditi},
title = {{Ruling Sets in Random Order and Adversarial Streams}},
booktitle = {35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021)},
pages = {6:1--6:18},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-210-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2021},
volume = {209},
editor = {Gilbert, Seth},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14808},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-148086},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.6},
annote = {Keywords: Symmetry breaking, Ruling sets, Lower bounds, Communication Complexity}
}
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Symmetry breaking, Ruling sets, Lower bounds, Communication Complexity |
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35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021) |
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2021 |
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04.10.2021 |
