A Distributed O(|E|) Algorithm for Optimal Link-Reversal

  • Authors:
  • Sukhamay Kundu

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Sc. Dept, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA LA 70803

  • Venue:
  • ICDCN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We first characterize the minimal link-sets L whose directions must be reversed for reestablishing one or more directed paths from each node x to a fixed destination node d in a network when a link fails. Then, we give a distributed O (|E |) algorithm for determining such a link-set L , where |E | = $\sharp$(links in the network). This improves the previous lower bound O (n 2 ), where n = $\sharp$(nodes in the network). The minimality of the reversed link-set L has other important consequences.