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Leader Election Requires Logarithmic Time in Population Protocols

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arxiv 1906.11121 v4 pith:7OQ7IOPF submitted 2019-06-25 cs.DC

Leader Election Requires Logarithmic Time in Population Protocols

classification cs.DC
keywords populationprotocolagentboundelectionexpectationleaderlogarithmic
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This paper shows that every leader election protocol requires logarithmic stabilization time both in expectation and with high probability in the population protocol model. This lower bound holds even if each agent has knowledge of the exact size of a population and is allowed to use an arbitrarily large number of agent states. This lower bound concludes that the protocol given in [Sudo et al., SSS 2019] is time-optimal in expectation.

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