Rumors on evolving graphs through stationary times

TL;DR

This paper investigates rumor spreading in evolving random graphs using stationary times, providing a method to analyze completion times in both Markovian and non-Markovian dynamic graph models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach based on strong stationary times to study rumor spreading in time-dependent graphs, extending existing results to non-Markovian dynamics.

Findings

Method based on strong stationary times for Markovian graphs

Extension of stationary times to non-Markovian dynamics

Results on rumor spreading completion times

Abstract

We study rumor spreading in dynamic random graphs. Starting with a single informed vertex, the information flows until it reaches all the vertices of the graph (completion), according to the following process. At each step $k$, the information is propagated to neighbors of the informed vertices, in the $k$-th generated random graph. The way this information propagates from vertex to vertex at each step will depend on the ``protocol". We provide a method based on strong stationary times to study the completion time when the graphs are Markovian time dependent, using known results of the literature for independent graphs. The concept of strong stationary times is then extended to non-Markovian Dynamics using coupling from the past algorithms. This allows to extend results on completion times for non-Markov dynamics