Graph Augmentation via Metric Embedding

  • Authors:
  • Emmanuelle Lebhar;Nicolas Schabanel

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS and CMM-Univesidad de Chile, Chile;CNRS and Université Paris Diderot, France

  • Venue:
  • OPODIS '08 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Kleinberg [17] proposed in 2000 the first random graph model achieving to reproduce small world navigability, i.e. the ability to greedily discover polylogarithmic routes between any pair of nodes in a graph, with only a partial knowledge of distances. Following this seminal work, a major challenge was to extend this model to larger classes of graphs than regular meshes, introducing the concept of augmented graphs navigability . In this paper, we propose an original method of augmentation, based on metrics embeddings. Precisely, we prove that, for any *** 0, any graph G such that its shortest paths metric admits an embedding of distorsion *** into *** d can be augmented by one link per node such that greedy routing computes paths of expected length $O(\frac1\varepsilon\gamma^d\log^{2+\varepsilon}n)$ between any pair of nodes with the only knowledge of G . Our method isolates all the structural constraints in the existence of a good quality embedding and therefore enables to enlarge the characterization of augmentable graphs.