A self-stabilizing algorithm for coloring planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Sukumar Ghosh;Mehmet Hakan Karaata

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing - Special issue: Self-stabilization
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper describes an algorithm for coloring the nodes of a planar graph with no more than six colors using a self-stabilizing approach. The first part illustrates the coloring algorithm on a directed acyclic version of the given planar graph. The second part describes a self-stabilizing algorithm for generating the directed acyclic version of the planar graph, and combines the two algorithms into one.