# Randomized Distributed Edge Coloring via an Extension of the Chernoff-Hoeffding Bounds

@article{Panconesi1997RandomizedDE,
title={Randomized Distributed Edge Coloring via an Extension of the Chernoff-Hoeffding Bounds},
author={Alessandro Panconesi and Aravind Srinivasan},
journal={SIAM J. Comput.},
year={1997},
volume={26},
pages={350-368}
}
• Published 1997
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• SIAM J. Comput.
Certain types of routing, scheduling, and resource-allocation problems in a distributed setting can be modeled as edge-coloring problems. We present fast and simple randomized algorithms for edge coloring a graph in the synchronous distributed point-to-point model of computation. Our algorithms compute an edge coloring of a graph $G$ with $n$ nodes and maximum degree $\Delta$ with at most $1.6 \Delta + O(\log^{1+ \delta} n)$ colors with high probability (arbitrarily close to 1) for any fixed… Expand
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