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Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks: Broadcasting, Gossiping, Leader Election, and Fault-Tolerance

By Juraj Hromkovič , Ralf Klasing , Walter Unger , Andrzej Pelc , Peter Ružičkaà

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
ISBN
978-3-540-00846-0, 978-3-540-26663-1
DOI
10.1007/b137871
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4004629 bytes)
Series
Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Pages
365\365
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-10-31 03:56:25

Description

With the rapid developments in hardware technologies, distributed computing and the interconnected world became realities, and the term "communication" became central in computer science. Solving communication tasks under different circumstances is the topic of this textbook. It provides an introduction to the theory of design and the analysis of algorithms for the dissemination of information in interconnection networks, with a special emphasis on broadcast and gossip. The book starts with the classic telegraph and telephone communication modes and follows the technology up to optical switches. Despite the rigorous presentation, simplicity and transparency are the main learning features of this book. All ideas, concepts, algorithms, analyses and arguments are first explained in an informal way in order to develop the right intuition, and then they are carefully specified in detail. This makes the content accessible for beginners as well as specialists.

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