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A Space Lower Bound for Routing in Trees

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The design of compact routing schemes in trees form the kernel of sophisticated strategies for compact routing in arbitrary graphs. This paper focuses on the space complexity for routing messages along shortest paths in trees. It was recently shown that the family of n-node trees supports routing schemes using addresses and routing tables of size O(log2 n/log log n) bits per node, if the output port numbers of each node are chosen by an adversary. This paper shows that this result is tight, that is the sum of the sizes of the address and of the local routing table is at least Ω(log2 n/ log log n) bits for some node of some tree.

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Fraigniaud, P., Gavoille, C. (2002). A Space Lower Bound for Routing in Trees. In: Alt, H., Ferreira, A. (eds) STACS 2002. STACS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45841-7_4

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