TY - JOUR AB - A left-to-right maximum in a sequence of n numbers s_1, …, s_n is a number that is strictly larger than all preceding numbers. In this article we present a smoothed analysis of the number of left-to-right maxima in the presence of additive random noise. We show that for every sequence of n numbers s_i ∈ [0,1] that are perturbed by uniform noise from the interval [-ε,ε], the expected number of left-to-right maxima is Θ(&sqrt;n/ε + log n) for ε>1/n. For Gaussian noise with standard deviation σ we obtain a bound of O((log3/2 n)/σ + log n).We apply our results to the analysis of the smoothed height of binary search trees and the smoothed number of comparisons in the quicksort algorithm and prove bounds of Θ(&sqrt;n/ε + log n) and Θ(n/ε+1&sqrt;n/ε + n log n), respectively, for uniform random noise from the interval [-ε,ε]. Our results can also be applied to bound the smoothed number of points on a convex hull of points in the two-dimensional plane and to smoothed motion complexity, a concept we describe in this article. We bound how often one needs to update a data structure storing the smallest axis-aligned box enclosing a set of points moving in d-dimensional space. AU - Damerow, Valentina AU - Manthey, Bodo AU - Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm AU - Räcke, Harald AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Sohler, Christian AU - Tantau, Till ID - 579 IS - 3 JF - Transactions on Algorithms TI - Smoothed analysis of left-to-right maxima with applications ER - TY - CONF AB - Nanoparticles are getting more and more in the focus of the scientic community since the potential for the development of very small particles interacting with each other and completing medical and other tasks is getting bigger year by year. In this work we introduce a distributed local algorithm for arranging a set of nanoparticles on the discrete plane into specic geometric shapes, for instance a rectangle. The concept of a particle we use can be seen as a simple mobile robot with the following restrictions: it can only view the state of robots it is physically connected to, is anonymous, has only a constant size memory, can only move by using other particles as an anchor point on which it pulls itself alongside, and it operates in Look-Compute-Move cycles. The main result of this work is the presentation of a random distributed local algorithm which transforms any given connected set of particles into a particular geometric shape. As an example we provide a version of this algorithm for forming a rectangle with an arbitrary predened aspect ratio. To the best of our knowledge this is the rst work that considers arrangement problems for these types of robots. AU - Drees, Maximilian AU - Hüllmann (married name: Eikel), Martina AU - Koutsopoulos, Andreas AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 581 T2 - Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) TI - Self-Organizing Particle Systems ER - TY - CONF AB - This paper initiates the formal study of a fundamental problem: How to efficiently allocate a shared communication medium among a set of K co-existing networks in the presence of arbitrary external interference? While most literature on medium access focuses on how to share a medium among nodes, these approaches are often either not directly applicable to co-existing networks as they would violate the independence requirement, or they yield a low throughput if applied to multiple networks. We present the randomized medium access (MAC) protocol COMAC which guarantees that a given communication channel is shared fairly among competing and independent networks, and that the available bandwidth is used efficiently. These performance guarantees hold in the presence of arbitrary external interference or even under adversarial jamming. Concretely, we show that the co-existing networks can use a Ω(ε2 min{ε, 1/poly(K)})-fraction of the non-jammed time steps for successful message transmissions, where ε is the (arbitrarily distributed) fraction of time which is not jammed. AU - Richa, Andrea W. AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Schmid, Stefan AU - Zhang, Jin ID - 623 T2 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles and Distributed Computing (PODC) TI - Competitive and fair throughput for co-existing networks under adversarial interference ER - TY - CONF AB - This paper initiates the study of self-adjusting distributed data structures for networks. In particular, we present SplayNets: a binary search tree based network that is self-adjusting to routing request.We derive entropy bounds on the amortized routing cost and show that our splaying algorithm has some interesting properties. AU - Schmid, Stefan AU - Avin, Chen AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Häupler, Bernhard AU - Lotker, Zvi ID - 625 T2 - Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) TI - Brief Announcement: SplayNets - Towards Self-Adjusting Distributed Data Structures ER - TY - CONF AB - The design of ecient search structures for peer-to-peer systems has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. In this announcement we address the problem of nding the predecessor in a key set and present an ecient data structure called hashed Predecessor Patricia trie. Our hashed Predecessor Patricia trie supports PredecessorSearch(x) and Insert(x) and Delete(x) in O(log log u) hash table accesses when u is the size of the universe of the keys. That is the costs only depend on u and not the size of the data structure. One feature of our approach is that it only uses the lookup interface of the hash table and therefore hash table accesses may be realized by any distributed hash table (DHT). AU - Kniesburges, Sebastian AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 626 T2 - Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) TI - Brief Announcement: Hashed Predecessor Patricia Trie - A Data Structure for Efficient Predecessor Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems ER - TY - CONF AB - Given an integer h, a graph G = (V;E) with arbitrary positive edge capacities and k pairs of vertices (s1; t1); (s2; t2); : : : ; (sk; tk), called terminals, an h-route cut is a set F µ E of edges such that after the removal of the edges in F no pair si ¡ ti is connected by h edge-disjoint paths (i.e., the connectivity of every si ¡ ti pair is at most h ¡ 1 in (V;E n F)). The h-route cut is a natural generalization of the classical cut problem for multicommodity °ows (take h = 1). The main result of this paper is an O(h722h log2 k)-approximation algorithm for the minimum h-route cut problem in the case that s1 = s2 = ¢ ¢ ¢ = sk, called the single source case. As a corollary of it we obtain an approximate duality theorem for multiroute multicom-modity °ows and cuts with a single source. This partially answers an open question posted in several previous papers dealing with cuts for multicommodity multiroute problems. AU - Kolman, Petr AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 632 T2 - Proceedings of the 23th ACM SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) TI - Approximate Duality of Multicommodity Multiroute Flows and Cuts: Single Source Case ER - TY - CONF AB - Small-world networks have received significant attention because of their potential as models for the interaction networks of complex systems. Specifically, neither random networks nor regular lattices seem to be an adequate framework within which to study real-world complex systems such as chemical-reaction networks, neural networks, food webs, social networks, scientific-collaboration networks, and computer networks. Small-world networks provide some desired properties like an expected polylogarithmic distance between two processes in the network, which allows routing in polylogarithmic hops by simple greedy routing, and robustness against attacks or failures. By these properties, small-world networks are possible solutions for large overlay networks comparable to structured overlay networks like CAN, Pastry, Chord, which also provide polylogarithmic routing, but due to their uniform structure, structured overlay networks are more vulnerable to attacks or failures. In this paper we bring together a randomized process converging to a small-world network and a self-stabilization process so that a small-world network is formed out of any weakly connected initial state. To the best of our knowledge this is the first distributed self-stabilization process for building a small-world network. AU - Kniesburges, Sebastian AU - Koutsopoulos, Andreas AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 640 T2 - Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) TI - A Self-Stabilization Process for Small-World Networks ER - TY - CONF AU - W. Richa, Andrea AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Schmid, Stefan AU - Zhang, Jin ID - 1891 SN - 978-0-7695-4364-2 T2 - 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 20-24, 2011 TI - Competitive and Fair Medium Access Despite Reactive Jamming ER - TY - CONF AU - W. Richa, Andrea AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Schmid, Stefan AU - Zhang, Jin ID - 1892 SN - 978-1-4503-0868-7 T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students, S3@MOBICOM 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 19 - 23, 2011 TI - Towards jamming-resistant and competitive medium access in the SINR model ER - TY - CONF AU - W. Richa, Andrea AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Schmid, Stefan AU - Zhang, Jin ID - 1893 SN - 978-1-4503-0722-2 T2 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Interational Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MobiHoc 2011, Paris, France, May 16-20, 2011 TI - Self-stabilizing leader election for single-hop wireless networks despite jamming ER - TY - CONF AU - Kniesburges, Sebastian AU - Koutsopoulos, Andreas AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1895 SN - 978-1-4503-0743-7 T2 - SPAA 2011: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, San Jose, CA, USA, June 4-6, 2011 (Co-located with FCRC 2011) TI - Re-Chord: a self-stabilizing chord overlay network ER - TY - CONF AU - Kniesburges, Sebastian AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1899 SN - 978-3-642-19093-3 T2 - WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation - 5th International Workshop, WALCOM 2011, New Delhi, India, February 18-20, 2011. Proceedings TI - Hashed Patricia Trie: Efficient Longest Prefix Matching in Peer-to-Peer Systems VL - 6552 ER - TY - CHAP AU - Scheideler, Christian AU - Graffi, Kalman ID - 1900 SN - 978-1-4614-1167-3 T2 - Computer Science, The Hardware, Software and Heart of It TI - Programming for Distributed Computing: From Physical to Logical Networks ER - TY - CHAP AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1901 SN - 978-3-642-15327-3 T2 - Algorithms Unplugged TI - Broadcasting - How Can I Quickly Disseminate Information? ER - TY - CONF AU - Kolman, Petr AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1924 T2 - 28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2011, March 10-12, 2011, Dortmund, Germany TI - Towards Duality of Multicommodity Multiroute Cuts and Flows: Multilevel Ball-Growing ER - TY - CONF AB - In the standard consensus problem there are n processes with possibly di®erent input values and the goal is to eventually reach a point at which all processes commit to exactly one of these values. We are studying a slight variant of the consensus problem called the stabilizing consensus problem [2]. In this problem, we do not require that each process commits to a ¯nal value at some point, but that eventually they arrive at a common, stable value without necessarily being aware of that. This should work irrespective of the states in which the processes are starting. Our main result is a simple randomized algorithm called median rule that, with high probability, just needs O(logmlog log n + log n) time and work per process to arrive at an almost stable consensus for any set of m legal values as long as an adversary can corrupt the states of at most p n processes at any time. Without adversarial involvement, just O(log n) time and work is needed for a stable consensus, with high probability. As a by-product, we obtain a simple distributed algorithm for approximating the median of n numbers in time O(logmlog log n + log n) under adversarial presence. AU - Doerr, Benjamin AU - Goldberg, Leslie Ann AU - Minder, Lorenz AU - Sauerwald, Thomas AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 645 T2 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) TI - Stabilizing consensus with the power of two choices ER - TY - CONF AB - This paper presents a dynamic overlay network based on the De Bruijn graph which we call Linearized De Bruijn (LDB) network. The LDB network has the advantage that it has a guaranteed constant node degree and that the routing between any two nodes takes at most O(log n) hops with high probability. Also, we show that there is a simple local-control algorithm that can recover the LDB network from any network topology that is weakly connected. AU - Richa, Andrea W. AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 646 T2 - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) TI - Self-Stabilizing DeBruijn Networks ER - TY - CONF AB - We present Corona, a deterministic self-stabilizing algorithm for skip list construction in structured overlay networks. Corona operates in the low-atomicity message-passing asynchronous system model. Corona requires constant process memory space for its operation and, therefore, scales well. We prove the general necessary conditions limiting the initial states from which a self-stabilizing structured overlay network in message-passing system can be constructed. The conditions require that initial state information has to form a weakly connected graph and it should only contain identiers that are present in the system. We formally describe Corona and rigorously prove that it stabilizes from an arbitrary initial state subject to the necessary conditions. We extend Corona to construct a skip graph. AU - Nesterenko, Mikhail AU - Mohd, Rizal AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 662 T2 - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) TI - Corona: A Stabilizing Deterministic Message-Passing Skip List ER - TY - JOUR AU - Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1903 IS - 5 JF - Informatik Spektrum TI - Algorithmische Grundlagen verteilter Speichersysteme ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gavoille, Cyril AU - Patt-Shamir, Boaz AU - Scheideler, Christian ID - 1904 IS - 4 JF - Theory of Computing Systems TI - Foreword ER -