Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with A. Steger, D. Steurer and B. Sudakov)

Date and Time: Thursday, August 03, 2017, 12:15 pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Peter Davies (University of Warwick)

Exploiting Spontaneous Transmissions for Broadcasting and Leader Election in Radio Networks

The radio network model is a distributed computing model designed to capture networks of devices communicating wirelessly. One of the most fundamental communication tasks in such a network is broadcasting, where one device has a message of which it must inform the entire network. The time complexity of this problem was thought to have been settled in 2003, when algorithms matching the lower bound were found. However, this lower bound assumed “no spontaneous transmissions”, meaning that devices are not allowed to communicate before receiving the broadcast message.

A breakthrough work of Haeupler and Wajc last year showed that without this assumption, the lower bound could be beaten. We continue this line of work, improving the algorithmic running time further and extending the method to the problem of leader election, a more complex task often used to break network symmetry.

Based on joint work with Artur Czumaj.

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