Sampling regular graphs and a peer-to-peer network

  • Authors:
  • Colin Cooper;Martin Dyer;Catherine Greenhill

  • Affiliations:
  • Kings College, London, UK;University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;School of Mathematics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • SODA '05 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We consider a simple Markov chain for d-regular graphs on n vertices, and show that the mixing time of this Markov chain is bounded above by a polynomial in n and d. A related Markov chain for d-regular graphs on a varying number of vertices is introduced, for even degree d. We use this to model a certain peer-to-peer network structure. We prove that the related chain has mixing time which is bounded by a polynomial in N, the expected number of vertices, under reasonable assumptions about the arrival and departure process.