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This paper initiates the study of the impact of failures on the fundamental problem of information spreading in the Vertex-Congest model, in which in every round, each of the n nodes sends the same O(logn)-bit message to all of its neighbors.
Our contribution to coping with failures is twofold. First, we prove that the randomized algorithm which chooses uniformly at random the next message to forward is slow, requiring \(\Omega(n/\sqrt{k})\) rounds on some graphs, which we denote by G n,k , where k is the vertex-connectivity.
Second, we design a randomized algorithm that makes dynamic message choices, with probabilities that change over the execution. We prove that for G n,k it requires only a near-optimal number of O(nlog3 n/k) rounds, despite a rate of q = O(k/nlog3 n) failures per round. Our technique of choosing probabilities that change according to the execution is of independent interest.
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Censor-Hillel, K., Toukan, T. (2015). On Fast and Robust Information Spreading in the Vertex-Congest Model. In: Scheideler, C. (eds) Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25258-2_19
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