该问题不是单靠总通信矩形参数就能完整描述;协议的时间顺序决定某条消息发出时谁已知道当前顶点。因而它为轮数—通信量权衡公理库轮数—通信量权衡Round-communication tradeoff · Round-sensitive communication complexity固定消息条数、首发者、单消息预算与错误后,刻画增加交互如何降低完成同一通信任务的总 bit 数。提供具体基准,也展示 round-insensitive LP 即使给出总量下界,也可能看不见首发方向的巨大差异。
参考资料
Christos H. Papadimitriou and Michael Sipser, “Communication Complexity,” Journal of Computer and System Sciences 28(2), 1984, pp. 260–269.
Noam Nisan and Avi Wigderson, “Rounds in Communication Complexity Revisited,” SIAM Journal on Computing 22(1), 1993, pp. 211–219.
Peter Bro Miltersen, Noam Nisan, Shmuel Safra, and Avi Wigderson, “On Data Structures and Asymmetric Communication Complexity,” Journal of Computer and System Sciences 57(1), 1998, pp. 37–49.