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On the construction of minimal broadcast networks
Author(s) -
Gargano Luisa,
Vaccaro Ugo
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.977
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1097-0037
pISSN - 0028-3045
DOI - 10.1002/net.3230190606
Subject(s) - computer science , broadcast communication network , node (physics) , atomic broadcast , computer network , broadcast radiation , task (project management) , broadcasting (networking) , telecommunications network , distributed computing , management , structural engineering , network packet , engineering , economics
Broadcast is the task of transmitting a message originated at a node in a network to all the other nodes. In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing minimal broadcast networks, that is, communication networks such that broadcast can be performed, from any node, in minimum time. The algorithms we propose allow us to improve known bounds on the minimum number of communication lines needed in minimal broadcast networks. We give some numerical evidence that our algorithms also perform well in practice.