# Improved Deterministic Network Decomposition

@inproceedings{Ghaffari2021ImprovedDN,
title={Improved Deterministic Network Decomposition},
author={Mohsen Ghaffari and Christoph Grunau and V{\'a}clav Rozhoň},
booktitle={SODA},
year={2021}
}
• Published in SODA 2021
• Computer Science
Network decomposition is a central tool in distributed graph algorithms. We present two improvements on the state of the art for network decomposition, which thus lead to improvements in the (deterministic and randomized) complexity of several well-studied graph problems. - We provide a deterministic distributed network decomposition algorithm with $O(\log^5 n)$ round complexity, using $O(\log n)$-bit messages. This improves on the $O(\log^7 n)$-round algorithm of Rozhoň and Ghaffari [STOC'20… Expand
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