Computing on anonymous networks: Part II - Decision and membership problems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 90-96

  Yamashita, Masafumi ^a,b   Kameda, Tsunehiko ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anonymous network; Computability; Distributed computing; Edge election; Leader election; NP completeness; Spanning tree construction; Topology recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

ANONYMOUS NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; EDGE ELECTION; LEADER ELECTION; SPANNING TREE CONSTRUCTION; TOPOLOGY RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0029755514     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.481600     Document Type: Article

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