Technical Reports

The report FIMU-RS-2001-09

How to Employ Reverse Search in Distributed Single Source Shortest Paths

by Lubo¹ Brim, Ivana Èerná, Pavel Krèál, Radek Pelánek, This is a full version of the paper presented at SOFSEM 2001. November 2001, 22 pages.

FIMU-RS-2001-09. Available as Postscript, PDF.

Abstract:

A distributed algorithm for the single-source shortest path problem for directed graphs with arbitrary edge lengths is proposed. The new algorithm is based on relaxations and uses reverse search for inspecting edges and thus avoids using any additional data structures. At the same time the algorithm uses a novel way to recognize a reachable negative-length cycle in the graph which facilitates the scalability of the algorithm.