@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.45, author = {Li, Qian and Ouyang, Minghui and Wang, Yuyi}, title = {{A Simple Distributed Algorithm for Sparse Fractional Covering and Packing Problems}}, booktitle = {35th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2024)}, pages = {45:1--45:8}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-354-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {322}, editor = {Mestre, Juli\'{a}n and Wirth, Anthony}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.45}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-221726}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2024.45}, annote = {Keywords: CONGEST model, row-sparse fractional covering, column-sparse fractional packing, positive linear programming, simple algorithms} }