Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach (Monographs on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Peleg, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898714648 ISBN 13: 9780898714647

Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987

Synopsis

This volume presents the locality-sensitive approach to distributed network algorithms-the utilization of locality to simplify control structures and algorithms and reduce their costs. The author begins with an introductory exposition of distributed network algorithms focusing on topics that illustrate the role of locality in distributed algorithmic techniques. He then introduces locality-preserving network representations and describes sequential and distributed techniques for their construction. Finally, the applicability of the locality-sensitive approach is demonstrated through several applications. Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach is the only book that gives a thorough exposition of network spanners and other locality-preserving network representations such as sparse covers and partitions. The book is useful for computer scientists interested in distributed computing, electrical engineers interested in network architectures and protocols, and for discrete mathematicians and graph theorists.

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About the Author

David Peleg is the Norman D. Cohen Professorial Chair of Computer Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898714648
• ISBN 13: 9780898714647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359