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A Population Protocol for Exact Majority with O(log5/3 n) Stabilization Time and Theta(log n) States

Authors Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer , Tom Friedetzky , Dominik Kaaser , Peter Kling , Tomasz Radzik

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Petra Berenbrink
  • Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Robert Elsässer
  • University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Tom Friedetzky
  • Durham University, Durham, U.K.
Dominik Kaaser
  • Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Peter Kling
  • Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Tomasz Radzik
  • King’s College London, London, U.K.

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  • Elsässer, Robert: Robert Elsässer’s work has been supported by grant no. P 27613 of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), "Distributed Voting in Large Networks".
  • Radzik, Tomasz: Tomasz Radzik’s work has been supported by EPSRC grant EP/M005038/1, "Randomized algorithms for computer networks".

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Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer, Tom Friedetzky, Dominik Kaaser, Peter Kling, and Tomasz Radzik. A Population Protocol for Exact Majority with O(log5/3 n) Stabilization Time and Theta(log n) States. In 32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 121, pp. 10:1-10:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2018.10

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A population protocol is a sequence of pairwise interactions of n agents. During one interaction, two randomly selected agents update their states by applying a deterministic transition function. The goal is to stabilize the system at a desired output property. The main performance objectives in designing such protocols are small number of states per agent and fast stabilization time.
We present a fast population protocol for the exact-majority problem, which uses Theta(log n) states (per agent) and stabilizes in O(log^{5/3} n) parallel time (i.e., in O(n log^{5/3} n) interactions) in expectation and with high probability. Alistarh et al. [SODA 2018] showed that exact-majority protocols which stabilize in expected O(n^{1-Omega(1)}) parallel time and have the properties of monotonicity and output dominance require Omega(log n) states. Note that the properties mentioned above are satisfied by all known population protocols for exact majority, including ours. They also showed an O(log^2 n)-time exact-majority protocol with O(log n) states, which, prior to our work, was the fastest exact-majority protocol with polylogarithmic number of states. The standard design framework for majority protocols is based on O(log n) phases and requires that all agents are well synchronized within each phase, leading naturally to upper bounds of the order of log^2 n because of Theta(log n) synchronization time per phase. We show how this framework can be tightened with weak synchronization to break the O(log^2 n) upper bound of previous protocols.

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  • Theory of computation → Distributed computing models
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  • Population Protocols
  • Randomized Algorithms
  • Majority

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