Mohsen Ghaffari · Juho Hirvonen · Fabian Kuhn · Yannic Maus · Jukka Suomela · Jara Uitto

Improved distributed degree splitting and edge coloring

DISC 2017 · 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing, Vienna, Austria, October 2017 ·

Abstract

The degree splitting problem requires coloring the edges of a graph red or blue such that each node has almost the same number of edges in each color, up to a small additive discrepancy. The directed variant of the problem requires orienting the edges such that each node has almost the same number of incoming and outgoing edges, again up to a small additive discrepancy. We present deterministic distributed algorithms for both variants, which improve on their counterparts presented by Ghaffari and Su [SODA'17]: our algorithms are significantly simpler and faster, and have a much smaller discrepancy. This also leads to a faster and simpler deterministic algorithm for $(2+o(1))\Delta$-edge-coloring, improving on that of Ghaffari and Su.

Publication

Andréa W. Richa (Ed.): 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017), volume 91 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), pages 19:1–19:15, Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2017

ISBN 978-3-95977-053-8

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