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cs.DC2015
Compressing Communication in Distributed Protocols
Yael Tauman Kalai, Ilan Komargodski
We show how to compress communication in selection protocols, where the goal is to agree on a sequence of random bits using only a broadcast channel. More specifically, we present…
cs.CC2015
Communication with Contextual Uncertainty
Badih Ghazi, Ilan Komargodski, Pravesh Kothari +1
We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributiona…