# Brief Announcement: Using Read-k Inequalities to Analyze a Distributed MIS Algorithm

@article{Pemmaraju2016BriefAU,
title={Brief Announcement: Using Read-k Inequalities to Analyze a Distributed MIS Algorithm},
author={Sriram V. Pemmaraju and Talal Riaz},
journal={Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing},
year={2016}
}
• Published 20 May 2016
• Computer Science
• Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Until recently, the fastest distributed MIS algorithm, even for simple graphs, e.g., unoriented trees, has been the simple randomized algorithm discovered in the 80s. This algorithm (commonly called Luby's algorithm) computes an MIS in O(log n) rounds (with high probability). This situation changed when Lenzen and Wattenhofer (PODC 2011) presented a randomized O(√log n} ⋅ log\log n)-round MIS algorithm for unoriented trees. This algorithm was improved by Barenboim et al. (FOCS 2012), resulting…
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