Deterministic decentralized search in random graphs

  • Authors:
  • Esteban Arcaute;Ning Chen;Ravi Kumar;David Liben-Nowell;Mohammad Mahdian;Hamid Nazerzadeh;Ying Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;University of Washington;Yahoo! Research;Carleton College;Yahoo! Research;Stanford University;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • WAW'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Algorithms and models for the web-graph
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study a general framework for decentralized search in random graphs. Our main focus is on deterministic memoryless search algorithms that use only local information to reach their destination in a bounded number of steps in expectation. This class includes (with small modifications) the search algorithms used in Kleinberg's pioneering work on long-range percolation graphs and hierarchical network models. We give a characterization of searchable graphs in this model, and use this characterization to prove a monotonicity property for searchability.