Distributed approximate matching

  • Authors:
  • Zvi Lotker;Boaz Patt-Shamir;Adi Rosen

  • Affiliations:
  • Ben Gurion University;Tel Aviv University;LRI

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider distributed algorithms for approximate maximum matching on general graphs. Our main result is a randomized (4 + ε)-approximation distributed algorithm for weighted maximum matching, whose running time is O(log n) for any constant ε 0, where n is the number of nodes in the graph. In addition, we consider the dynamic case, where nodes are inserted and deleted one at a time. For unweighted dynamic graphs, we give an algorithm that maintains a (1 + ε)-approximation in O(1/ε) time for each node insertion or deletion. For weighted dynamic graphs we give a constant-factor approximation algorithm that runs in constant time for each insertion or deletion.