Electric routing and concurrent flow cutting

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan Kelner;Petar Maymounkov

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Room 2-372, MA 02139, United States;MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, 32 Vassar St, Room 32-G980, 02139 Cambridge, MA, United States

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We investigate an oblivious routing scheme, amenable to distributed computation and resilient to graph changes, based on electrical flow. Our main technical contribution is a new rounding method which we use to obtain a bound on the @?"1-@?"1 operator norm of the inverse graph Laplacian. We show how this norm reflects both latency and congestion of electric routing.