On the Distributed Complexity of Computing Maximal Matchings

  • Authors:
  • Michal Hanckowiak;Michal Karonski;Alessandro Panconesi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show that maximal matchings can be computed deterministically in O(log4 n) rounds in the synchronous, message-passing model of computation. This is one of the very few cases known of a nontrivial graph structure, and the only "classical" one, which can be computed distributively in polylogarithmic time without recourse to randomization.