An unconditional lower bound on the time-approximation trade-off for the distributed minimum spanning tree problem

Michael Elkin

doi:10.1137/S0097539704441058

An unconditional lower bound on the time-approximation trade-off for the distributed minimum spanning tree problem

Michael Elkin

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The design of distributed approximation protocols is a relatively new and rapidly developing area of research. However, so far, little progress has been made in the study of the hardness of distributed approximation. In this paper we initiate the systematic study of this subject and show strong unconditional lower bounds on the time-approximation trade-off of the distributed minimum spanning tree problem, and show some of its variants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	433-456
Number of pages	24
Journal	SIAM Journal on Computing
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1137/S0097539704441058
State	Published - 1 Dec 2006

Keywords

Distributed algorithms
Hardness of approximation
Minimum spanning tree

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Mathematics (all)

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An unconditional lower bound on the time-approximation trade-off for the distributed minimum spanning tree problem

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