Fast self-stabilizing minimum spanning tree construction: using compact nearest common ancestor labeling scheme

  • Authors:
  • Lélia Blin;Shlomi Dolev;Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru;Stephane Rovedakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Evry, France and LIP6, CNRS, UMR, France;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Université Pierre & Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France and LIP6, CNRS, UMR, France and INRIA, REGAL, France;Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, Evry, France and Laboratoire IBISC, Evry, France

  • Venue:
  • DISC'10 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is O(log2 n) bits and it converges in O(n2) rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of all previously known self-stabilizing asynchronous MST algorithms by a multiplicative factor Θ(n), to the price of increasing the best known space complexity by a factor O(log n). The main ingredient used in our algorithm is the design, for the first time in self-stabilizing settings, of a labeling scheme for computing the nearest common ancestor with only O(log2 n) bits.