The round complexity of distributed sorting: extended abstract

  • Authors:
  • Boaz Patt-Shamir;Marat Teplitsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider the model of fully connected networks, where in each round each node can send an O(log n)-bit message to each other node (this is the CONGEST model with diameter 1). It is known that in this model, min-weight spanning trees can be found in O(log log n) rounds. In this paper we show that distributed sorting, where each node has at most n items, can be done in time O(log log n) as well. It is also shown that selection can be done in O(1) time. (Using a concurrent result by Lenzen and Wattenhofer, the complexity of sorting is further reduced to constant.) Our algorithms are randomized, and the stated complexity bounds hold with high probability.