Distributed algorithm for better approximation of the maximum matching

  • Authors:
  • A. Czygrinow;M. Hanckowiak

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'03 Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Let G be a graph on n vertices that does not have odd cycles of lengths 3, ..., 2k - 1. We present an efficient distributed algorithm that finds in O(logD n) steps (D = D(k)) matching M, such that |M| ≥ (1 - α)|M*|, where M* is a maximum matching in G, α = 1/k+1.