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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2012
Eyal Lubetzky, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuval Peres, Redmond, WA (US);
Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Po-shen Loh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eyal Lubetzky, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuval Peres, Redmond, WA (US);
Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Po-Shen Loh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A 'Stochastic Clustering-Based Network Generator' enables rapid formation of an interconnected hierarchical network structure from an arbitrary number of agents via an iterative turn-based coalescence process. Given N agents wishing to coalesce into one hierarchical network, a turn-based process allows each agent (or the head of each hierarchical cluster of agents), to randomly decide whether to issue or listen for merge requests in each round. Issuing a request amounts to contacting a randomly chosen agent with a merge request. Given multiple received requests, a cluster head will randomly accept one request for a merge received by any agent in that cluster. The requesting cluster then merges as a hierarchical child of the accepting cluster. In a related embodiment, given multiple merge requests, the request from the smallest cluster is accepted. In further embodiments, ties of the smallest cluster size are broken based on various options.