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A distributed shortest-paths algorithm with distance-dependent message complexities

✍ Scribed by Kouji Miura; Toshimitsu Masuzawa; Nobuki Tokura


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
948 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0882-1666

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Abstract

This paper presents a distributed algorithm for the single‐source shortest‐paths problem in a network with nonnegative integral link weights. Its message complexity is
, where n is the number of processors, e is the number of links, and D is the maximum distance from the root. The known shortest‐paths algorithm with the distance‐dependent message complexity requires O(min(Dn + e, n^2^)) messages. The algorithm of this paper is more efficient for networks with D = o(n^3^/e) and D = ω__(e/n).__ Moreover, the breadth‐first search tree problem is considered.