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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.153
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91576
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/9157/
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Grossman, Ofer ; Haeupler, Bernhard ; Mohanty, Sidhanth

Algorithms for Noisy Broadcast with Erasures

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Abstract

The noisy broadcast model was first studied by [Gallager, 1988] where an n-character input is distributed among n processors, so that each processor receives one input bit. Computation proceeds in rounds, where in each round each processor broadcasts a single character, and each reception is corrupted independently at random with some probability p. [Gallager, 1988] gave an algorithm for all processors to learn the input in O(log log n) rounds with high probability. Later, a matching lower bound of Omega(log log n) was given by [Goyal et al., 2008].
We study a relaxed version of this model where each reception is erased and replaced with a `?' independently with probability p, so the processors have knowledge of whether a bit has been corrupted. In this relaxed model, we break past the lower bound of [Goyal et al., 2008] and obtain an O(log^* n)-round algorithm for all processors to learn the input with high probability. We also show an O(1)-round algorithm for the same problem when the alphabet size is Omega(poly(n)).

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@InProceedings{grossman_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:9157,
  author =	{Ofer Grossman and Bernhard Haeupler and Sidhanth Mohanty},
  title =	{{Algorithms for Noisy Broadcast with Erasures}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and  Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{153:1--153:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Ioannis Chatzigiannakis and Christos Kaklamanis and D{\'a}niel Marx and Donald Sannella},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9157},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91576},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.153},
  annote =	{Keywords: noisy broadcast, error correction, erasures, distributed computing with noise}
}

Keywords: noisy broadcast, error correction, erasures, distributed computing with noise
Collection: 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 04.07.2018

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