Complexity of network synchronization

  • Authors:
  • Baruch Awerbuch

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

The problem of simulating a synchronous network by an asynchronous network is investigated. A new simulation technique, referred to as a synchronizer, which is a new, simple methodology for designing efficient distributed algorithms in asynchronous networks, is proposed. The synchronizer exhibits a trade-off between its communication and time complexities, which is proved to be within a constant factor of the lower bound.