5 Search Results for "El-Hayek, Antoine"


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Coordination Through Stochastic Channels

Authors: Pierre Fraigniaud, Boaz Patt-Shamir, and Sergio Rajsbaum

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)


Abstract
We consider a stochastic network model consisting of a set of n synchronous processes communicating by message passing. In each round, processes send messages directly to each other over a complete communication graph. The processes do not fail, but messages can be lost. Each message is delivered with probability p, for a given parameter p ∈ [0,1]. We study the following optimization version of approximate agreement in this model. We assume that processes start with binary input values, execute an algorithm for a fixed number of rounds, and decide values in [0,1] satisfying the usual validity requirement stating that if all processes start with the same input value, then they should all decide that value. We propose deterministic algorithms that minimize the expected discrepancy, namely, the expected maximum distance between the decided values. We also present lower bounds on the expected discrepancy, which demonstrate the optimality of our algorithms for two processes. Finally, we present applications of our algorithms to solve randomized consensus and randomized approximate agreement.

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Pierre Fraigniaud, Boaz Patt-Shamir, and Sergio Rajsbaum. Coordination Through Stochastic Channels. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 32:1-32:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{fraigniaud_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.32,
  author =	{Fraigniaud, Pierre and Patt-Shamir, Boaz and Rajsbaum, Sergio},
  title =	{{Coordination Through Stochastic Channels}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248493},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximate agreement, randomized consensus, stochastic models, topology}
}
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Length-Constrained Directed Expander Decomposition and Length-Constrained Vertex-Capacitated Flow Shortcuts

Authors: Bernhard Haeupler, Yaowei Long, Thatchaphol Saranurak, and Shengzhe Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
We show the existence of length-constrained expander decomposition in directed graphs and undirected vertex-capacitated graphs. Previously, its existence was shown only in undirected edge-capacitated graphs [Bernhard Haeupler et al., 2022; Haeupler et al., 2024]. Along the way, we prove the multi-commodity maxflow-mincut theorems for length-constrained expansion in both directed and undirected vertex-capacitated graphs. Based on our decomposition, we build a length-constrained flow shortcut for undirected vertex-capacitated graphs, which roughly speaking is a set of edges and vertices added to the graph so that every multi-commodity flow demand can be routed with approximately the same vertex-congestion and length, but all flow paths only contain few edges. This generalizes the shortcut for undirected edge-capacitated graphs from [Bernhard Haeupler et al., 2024]. Length-constrained expander decomposition and flow shortcuts have been crucial in the recent algorithms in undirected edge-capacitated graphs [Bernhard Haeupler et al., 2024; Haeupler et al., 2024]. Our work thus serves as a foundation to generalize these concepts to directed and vertex-capacitated graphs.

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Bernhard Haeupler, Yaowei Long, Thatchaphol Saranurak, and Shengzhe Wang. Length-Constrained Directed Expander Decomposition and Length-Constrained Vertex-Capacitated Flow Shortcuts. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 107:1-107:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{haeupler_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.107,
  author =	{Haeupler, Bernhard and Long, Yaowei and Saranurak, Thatchaphol and Wang, Shengzhe},
  title =	{{Length-Constrained Directed Expander Decomposition and Length-Constrained Vertex-Capacitated Flow Shortcuts}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{107:1--107:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.107},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245765},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.107},
  annote =	{Keywords: Length-Constrained Expander, Expander Decomposition, Shortcut}
}
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On b-Matching and Fully-Dynamic Maximum k-Edge Coloring

Authors: Antoine El-Hayek, Kathrin Hanauer, and Monika Henzinger

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 330, 4th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2025)


Abstract
Given a graph G that undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions, we study the Maximum k-Edge Coloring problem (MkEC): Having access to k different colors, color as many edges of G as possible such that no two adjacent edges share the same color. While this problem is different from simply maintaining a b-matching with b = k, the two problems are related. However, maximum b-matching can be solved efficiently in the static setting, whereas MkEC is NP-hard and even APX-hard for k ≥ 2. We present new results on both problems: For b-matching, we show a new integrality gap result and we adapt Wajc’s matching sparsification scheme [David Wajc, 2020] for the case where b is a constant. Using these as basis, we give three new algorithms for the dynamic MkEC problem: Our MatchO algorithm builds on the dynamic (2+ε)-approximation algorithm of Bhattacharya, Gupta, and Mohan [Sayan Bhattacharya et al., 2017] for b-matching and achieves a (2+ε)(k+1)/k-approximation in O(poly(log n, ε^-1)) update time against an oblivious adversary. Our MatchA algorithm builds on the dynamic (7+ε)-approximation algorithm by Bhattacharya, Henzinger, and Italiano [Sayan Bhattacharya et al., 2015] for fractional b-matching and achieves a (7+ε)(3k+3)/(3k-1)-approximation in O(poly(log n, ε^-1)) update time against an adaptive adversary. Moreover, our reductions use the dynamic b-matching algorithm as a black box, so any future improvement in the approximation ratio for dynamic b-matching will automatically translate into a better approximation ratio for our algorithms. Finally, we present a greedy algorithm with O(Δ+k) update time, which guarantees a 2.16 approximation factor.

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Antoine El-Hayek, Kathrin Hanauer, and Monika Henzinger. On b-Matching and Fully-Dynamic Maximum k-Edge Coloring. In 4th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 330, pp. 4:1-4:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{elhayek_et_al:LIPIcs.SAND.2025.4,
  author =	{El-Hayek, Antoine and Hanauer, Kathrin and Henzinger, Monika},
  title =	{{On b-Matching and Fully-Dynamic Maximum k-Edge Coloring}},
  booktitle =	{4th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2025)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-368-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{330},
  editor =	{Meeks, Kitty and Scheideler, Christian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2025.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-230571},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAND.2025.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic algorithm, graph algorithm, matching, b-matching, edge coloring}
}
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Broadcast and Consensus in Stochastic Dynamic Networks with Byzantine Nodes and Adversarial Edges

Authors: Antoine El-Hayek, Monika Henzinger, and Stefan Schmid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 319, 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)


Abstract
Broadcast and Consensus are most fundamental tasks in distributed computing. These tasks are particularly challenging in dynamic networks where communication across the network links may be unreliable, e.g., due to mobility or failures. Over the last years, researchers have derived several impossibility results and high time complexity lower bounds for these tasks. Specifically for the setting where in each round of communication the adversary is allowed to choose one rooted tree along which the information is disseminated, there is a lower as well as an upper bound that is linear in the number n of nodes for Broadcast and for n ≥ 3 the adversary can guarantee that Consensus never happens. This setting is called the oblivious message adversary for rooted trees. Also note that if the adversary is allowed to choose a graph that does not contain a rooted tree, then it can guarantee that Broadcast and Consensus will never happen. However, such deterministic adversarial models may be overly pessimistic, as many processes in real-world settings are stochastic in nature rather than worst-case. This paper studies Broadcast on stochastic dynamic networks and shows that the situation is very different to the deterministic case. In particular, we show that if information dissemination occurs along random rooted trees and directed Erdős–Rényi graphs, Broadcast completes in O(log n) rounds of communication with high probability. The fundamental insight in our analysis is that key variables are mutually independent. We then study two adversarial models, (a) one with Byzantine nodes and (b) one where an adversary controls the edges. (a) Our techniques without Byzantine nodes are general enough so that they can be extended to Byzantine nodes. (b) In the spirit of smoothed analysis, we introduce the notion of randomized oblivious message adversary, where in each round, an adversary picks k ≤ 2n/3 edges to appear in the communication network, and then a graph (e.g. rooted tree or directed Erdős–Rényi graph) is chosen uniformly at random among the set of all such graphs that include these edges. We show that Broadcast completes in a finite number of rounds, which is, e.g., O(k+log n) rounds in rooted trees. We then extend these results to All-to-All Broadcast, and Consensus, and give lower bounds that show that most of our upper bounds are tight.

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Antoine El-Hayek, Monika Henzinger, and Stefan Schmid. Broadcast and Consensus in Stochastic Dynamic Networks with Byzantine Nodes and Adversarial Edges. In 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 319, pp. 21:1-21:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{elhayek_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2024.21,
  author =	{El-Hayek, Antoine and Henzinger, Monika and Schmid, Stefan},
  title =	{{Broadcast and Consensus in Stochastic Dynamic Networks with Byzantine Nodes and Adversarial Edges}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-352-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{319},
  editor =	{Alistarh, Dan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212476},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Broadcast, Smoothed Analysis, Stochastic Networks, Dynamic Networks}
}
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Asymptotically Tight Bounds on the Time Complexity of Broadcast and Its Variants in Dynamic Networks

Authors: Antoine El-Hayek, Monika Henzinger, and Stefan Schmid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 251, 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)


Abstract
Data dissemination is a fundamental task in distributed computing. This paper studies broadcast problems in various innovative models where the communication network connecting n processes is dynamic (e.g., due to mobility or failures) and controlled by an adversary. In the first model, the processes transitively communicate their ids in synchronous rounds along a rooted tree given in each round by the adversary whose goal is to maximize the number of rounds until at least one id is known by all processes. Previous research has shown a ⌈(3n-1)/2⌉-2 lower bound and an O(nlog log n) upper bound. We show the first linear upper bound for this problem, namely ⌈(1+√2) n-1⌉ ≈ 2.4n. We extend these results to the setting where the adversary gives in each round k-disjoint forests and their goal is to maximize the number of rounds until there is a set of k ids such that each process knows of at least one of them. We give a ⌈3(n-k)/2⌉-1 lower bound and a (π²+6)/6 n+1 ≈ 2.6n upper bound for this problem. Finally, we study the setting where the adversary gives in each round a directed graph with k roots and their goal is to maximize the number of rounds until there exist k ids that are known by all processes. We give a ⌈3(n-3k)/2⌉+2 lower bound and a ⌈(1+√2)n⌉+k-1 ≈ 2.4n+k upper bound for this problem. For the two latter problems no upper or lower bounds were previously known.

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Antoine El-Hayek, Monika Henzinger, and Stefan Schmid. Asymptotically Tight Bounds on the Time Complexity of Broadcast and Its Variants in Dynamic Networks. In 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 251, pp. 47:1-47:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{elhayek_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.47,
  author =	{El-Hayek, Antoine and Henzinger, Monika and Schmid, Stefan},
  title =	{{Asymptotically Tight Bounds on the Time Complexity of Broadcast and Its Variants in Dynamic Networks}},
  booktitle =	{14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)},
  pages =	{47:1--47:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-263-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{251},
  editor =	{Tauman Kalai, Yael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.47},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-175502},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.47},
  annote =	{Keywords: broadcast, cover, k-broadcast, dynamic radius, dynamic graphs, oblivious message adversary, time complexity}
}
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