Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks: Broadcasting, Gossiping, Leader Election, and Fault-Tolerance / Edition 1

by Juraj Hromkovic, Ralf Klasing, A. Pelc, Peter Ruzicka, Walter Unger

Overview

Preface Due to the development of hardware technologies (such as VLSI) in the early 1980s, the interest in parallel and distributive computing has been rapidly growingandinthelate1980sthestudyofparallelalgorithmsandarchitectures became one of the main topics in computer science. To bring the topic to educatorsandstudents,severalbooksonparallelcomputingwerewritten. The involvedtextbook“IntroductiontoParallelAlgorithmsandArchitectures”by F. Thomson Leighton in 1992 was one of the milestones in the development of parallel architectures and parallel algorithms. But in the last decade or so the main interest in parallel and distributive computing moved from the design of parallel algorithms and expensive parallel computers to the new distributive reality – the world of interconnected computers that cooperate (often asynchronously) in order to solve different tasks. Communication became one of the most frequently used terms of computer science because of the following reasons: (i) Considering the high performance of current computers, the communication is often moretime consuming than the computing time of processors. As a result, the capacity of communication channels is the bottleneck in the execution of many distributive algorithms. (ii) Many tasks in the Internet are pure communication tasks. We do not want to compute anything, we only want to execute some information - change or to extract some information as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible. Also, we do not have a central database involving all basic knowledge. Instead, wehavea distributed memorywherethe basickno- edgeisdistributedamongthelocalmemoriesofalargenumberofdifferent computers. The growing importance of solving pure communication tasks in the - terconnected world is the main motivation forwriting this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642056482
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/14/2010
Series:	Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

The Telegraph and Telephone Modes.- Fundamentals.- Broadcasting.- Gossiping.- Systolic Communication.- Fault-Tolerance.- Distributed Networks.- Broadcast on Distributed Networks.- Leader Election in Asynchronous Distributed Networks.- Fault-Tolerant Broadcast in Distributed Networks.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book covers the complexity of communication to disseminate information in networks. … The book surveys the state of the art of broadcasting and gossiping in the telegraph and telephone modes of communication. … appears to be especially useful to researchers in the field. … The exposition is self-contained, including specialized topics." (Bogdan S. Chlebus, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 c)

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