Efficient leader election using sense of direction

  • Authors:
  • Gurdip Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper presents a protocol for leader election in complete networks with a sense of direction. Sense of direction provides nodes the capability of distinguishing between their incident links according to a global scheme. We propose a protocol for leader election which requires O(N) messages and O(log N) time. The protocol is message optimal and the time complexity is a significant improvement over currently known protocols for this problem.