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Lower Bound for Function Computation in Distributed Networks

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Distributed computing network systems are modeled as graphs with which vertices represent compute elements and adjacency-edges capture their uni- or bi-directional communication. Distributed computation over a network system proceeds in a sequence of time-steps in which vertices update and/or exchange their values based on the underlying algorithm constrained by the time-(in)variant network topology. For finite convergence of distributed information dissemination and function computation in the model, we present a lower bound on the number of time-steps for vertices to receive (initial) vertex-values of all vertices regardless of underlying protocol or algorithmics in time-invariant networks via the notion of vertex-eccentricity.

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Dai, H.K., Toulouse, M. (2018). Lower Bound for Function Computation in Distributed Networks. In: Dang, T., Küng, J., Wagner, R., Thoai, N., Takizawa, M. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. FDSE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03192-3_28

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