AN EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM FOR 3-EDGE-CONNECTIVITY
Yung Hyang Tsin · International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science · 2006
A distributed algorithm for finding the cut-edges and the 3-edge-connected components of an asynchronous computer network is presented. For a network with n nodes and m links, the algorithm has worst-case [Formula: see text] time and O(m + nhT) message complexity, where hT < n. The algorithm is message optimal when [Formula: see text] which includes dense networks (i.e. m ∈ Θ(n2)). The previously best known distributed algorithm has a worst-case O(n3) time and message complexity.