@proceedings {38208, title = {A distributed algorithm for ear decomposition}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {IEEE}, type = {10.1109/ICCI.1993.315382}, abstract = {A distributed algorithm for finding an ear decomposition of an asynchronous communication network with n nodes and m links is presented. At the completion of the algorithm either the ears are correctly labeled or the nodes are informed that there exists no ear decomposition. First we present a novel algorithm to check the existence of an ear decomposition which uses O(m) messages. We also present two other algorithms, one which is time-optimal and the other which is message-optimal to determine the actual ears and their corresponding numbers after determining the existence of an ear decomposition}, keywords = {Asynchronous communication, asynchronous communication network, Automata, Communication networks, computational complexity, Computer networks, Computer science, decomposition graph, distributed algorithm, distributed algorithms, Distributed computing, Ear, ear decomposition, graph theory, message-optimal, network decomposition, sorting, Testing, time-optimal}, isbn = {0-8186-4212-2}, author = {Sridhar Hannenhalli and Perumalla, K. and Chandrasekharan, N. and Sridhar, R.} }