Matti Åstrand · Jukka Suomela

Fast distributed approximation algorithms for vertex cover and set cover in anonymous networks

SPAA 2010 · 22nd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, Santorini, Greece, June 2010 · doi:10.1145/1810479.1810533

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Abstract

We present a distributed algorithm that finds a maximal edge packing in O(Δ + log* W) synchronous communication rounds in a weighted graph, independent of the number of nodes in the network; here Δ is the maximum degree of the graph and W is the maximum weight. As a direct application, we have a distributed 2-approximation algorithm for minimum-weight vertex cover, with the same running time. We also show how to find an f-approximation of minimum-weight set cover in O(f2k2 + fk log* W) rounds; here k is the maximum size of a subset in the set cover instance, f is the maximum frequency of an element, and W is the maximum weight of a subset. The algorithms are deterministic, and they can be applied in anonymous networks.

Publication

Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Cynthia A. Phillips (Eds.): SPAA’10, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, June 13–15, 2010, Thira, Santorini, Greece, pages 294–302, ACM Press, New York, 2010

ISBN 978-1-4503-0079-7

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