Distributed Asynchronous Relaxation Methods for Convex Network Flow Problems.

摘要

This document considers the solution of the single commodity strictly convey network flow problem in a distributed asynchronous computation environment. The dual of this problem is unconstrained, differentiable, and well suited for solution via Gauss-Seidel relaxation. It is shown that the structure of the dual allows the successful application of a distributed asynchronous method whereby relaxation iterations are carried out in parallel by several processors in arbitrary order and with arbitrarily large interprocessor communication delays. (Author)