Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

DOI

10.1016/s0166-218x(97)00135-2

Publication Title

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volume

77

Issue

3

Pages

201-220

Abstract

The main goal of this work is to fathom the suitability of the mesh with multiple broadcasting architecture (MMB) for some tree-related computations. We view our contribution at two levels: on the one hand, we exhibit time lower bounds for a number of tree-related problems on the MMB. On the other hand, we show that these lower bounds are tight by exhibiting time-optimal tree algorithms on the MMB. Specifically, we show that the task of encoding and/or decoding n-node binary and ordered trees cannot be solved faster than Ω(log n) time even if the MMB has an infinite number of processors. We then go on to show that this lower bound is tight. We also show that the task of reconstructing n-node binary trees and ordered trees from their traversais can be performed in O(1) time on the same architecture. Our algorithms rely on novel time-optimal algorithms on sequences of parentheses that we also develop.

Comments

Elsevier open archive. Copyright © 1997 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original Publication Citation

Bhagavathi, D., Bokka, V., Gurla, H., Olariu, S., & Schwing, J. L. (1997). Time-optimal tree computations on sparse meshes. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 77(3), 201-220. doi:10.1016/s0166-218x(97)00135-2

ORCID

0000-0002-3776-216X (Olariu)

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