A Uniform Randomized Election in Trees

摘要

We design and analyze a randomized one-passage election algorithm in trees. The election process is a distributed elimination scheme which removes leaves one-by-one reducing the tree to a single vertex, called the leader (or elected vertex). We define a locally computable parameter guiding randomly the elimination process. As a particular instance, we provide a parameter assignment in a Markovian type random process in which all vertices have the same chance of being elected.