Fast Self-Stabilizing Minimum Spanning Tree Construction

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is O(log n) bits and it converges in O(n) rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of all previously known selfstabilizing asynchronous MST algorithms by a multiplicative factor Θ(n), to the price of increasing the best known space complexity by a factor O(log n). The main ingredient used in our algorithm is the design, for the first time in self-stabilizing settings, of a labeling scheme for computing the nearest common ancestor with only O(log n) bits.