An efficient heuristic for broadcasting in networks

  • Authors:
  • Hovhannes A. Harutyunyan;Bin Shao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8;Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a heuristic for broadcasting in arbitrary networks. This heuristic generates optimal broadcast time for ring, tree and grid graphs when the originator is a corner vertex. In practice, the new heuristic outperforms the best known broadcast algorithms for three different network models. The time complexity of one round of the heuristic is O(|E|), where |E| stand for the number of edges of the network.