Veracity radius: capturing the locality of distributed computations

  • Authors:
  • Yitzhak Birk;Idit Keidar;Liran Liss;Assaf Schuster;Ran Wolff

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Haifa, Israel;Technion, Haifa, Israel;Technion, Haifa, Israel;Technion, Haifa, Israel;University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper focuses on local computations of distributed aggregation problems on fixed graphs. We define a new metric on problem instances, Veracity Radius (VR), which captures the inherent possibility to compute them locally. We prove that VR yields a tight lower bound on output-stabilization time, i.e., the time until all nodes fix their outputs, as well as a lower bound on quiescence time. We present an efficient aggregation algorithm, I-LEAG, which reaches both output stabilization and quiescence within a time that is proportional to the VR of the problem instance, and is also efficient in terms of per-node communication and memory. We empirically show that the VR metric also effectively captures the performance of previously suggested efficient aggregation protocols, and that I-LEAG significantly outperforms these protocols in several respects.