A self-stabilizing k-clustering algorithm for weighted graphs

  • Authors:
  • Eddy Caron;Ajoy K. Datta;Benjamin Depardon;Lawrence L. Larmore

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lyon, LIP Laboratory, UMR CNRS - ENS Lyon - INRIA - UCB Lyon 5668, France and LIP - íquipe GRAAL, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France;School of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA;University of Lyon, LIP Laboratory, UMR CNRS - ENS Lyon - INRIA - UCB Lyon 5668, France and LIP - íquipe GRAAL, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France;School of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks as well as grid platforms are distributed, changing, and error prone environments. Communication costs within such infrastructure can be improved, or at least bounded, by using k-clustering. A k-clustering of a graph, is a partition of the nodes into disjoint sets, called clusters, in which every node is distance at most k from a designated node in its cluster, called the clusterhead. A self-stabilizing asynchronous distributed algorithm is given for constructing a k-clustering of a connected network of processes with unique IDs and weighted edges. The algorithm is comparison based, takes O(nk) time, and uses O(logn+logk) space per process, where n is the size of the network. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first solution to the k-clustering problem on weighted graphs.