IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Constructing a Spanning Forest on Trapezoid Graphs
Hirotoshi HONMAShigeru MASUYAMA
Author information
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESS

2008 Volume E91.A Issue 9 Pages 2296-2300

Details
Abstract

Given a simple graph G with n vertices, m edges and k connected components. The spanning forest problem is to find a spanning tree for each connected component of G. This problem has applications to the electrical power demand problem, computer network design, circuit analysis, etc. An optimal parallel algorithm for finding a spanning tree on the trapezoid graph is given by Bera et al., it takes O(logn) time with O(n/logn) processors on the EREW (Exclusive-Read Exclusive-Write) PRAM. Bera et al.'s algorithm is very simple and elegant. Moreover, it can correctly construct a spanning tree when the graph is connected. However, their algorithm can not accept a disconnected graph as an input. Applying their algorithm to a disconnected graph, Concurrent-Write occurs once for each connected component, thus this can not be achieved on EREW PRAM. In this paper we present an O(logn) time parallel algorithm with O(n/logn) processors for constructing a spanning forest on trapezoid graph G on EREW PRAM even if G is a disconnected graph.

Content from these authors
© 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top