Fast Coloring Despite Congested Relays

Authors Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin



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Maxime Flin
  • Reykjavik University, Iceland
Magnús M. Halldórsson
  • Reykjavik University, Iceland
Alexandre Nolin
  • CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Maxime Flin, Magnús M. Halldórsson, and Alexandre Nolin. Fast Coloring Despite Congested Relays. In 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 281, pp. 19:1-19:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.19

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We provide a O(log⁶ log n)-round randomized algorithm for distance-2 coloring in CONGEST with Δ²+1 colors. For Δ≫polylog n, this improves exponentially on the O(logΔ+polylog log n) algorithm of [Halldórsson, Kuhn, Maus, Nolin, DISC'20].

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  • Theory of computation → Distributed algorithms
  • Mathematics of computing → Graph coloring
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  • CONGEST model
  • distributed graph coloring
  • power graphs

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