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标题：Half-Duplex Communication Complexity
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作者：Kenneth Hoover ; Russell Impagliazzo ; Ivan Mihajlin 等
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2018
卷号：123
页码：1-12
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.10
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：Suppose Alice and Bob are communicating in order to compute some function f, but instead of a classical communication channel they have a pair of walkie-talkie devices. They can use some classical communication protocol for f where in each round one player sends a bit and the other one receives it. The question is whether talking via walkie-talkie gives them more power? Using walkie-talkies instead of a classical communication channel allows players two extra possibilities: to speak simultaneously (but in this case they do not hear each other) and to listen at the same time (but in this case they do not transfer any bits). The motivation for this kind of a communication model comes from the study of the KRW conjecture. We show that for some definitions this non-classical communication model is, in fact, more powerful than the classical one as it allows to compute some functions in a smaller number of rounds. We also prove lower bounds for these models using both combinatorial and information theoretic methods.
关键词：communication complexity; half-duplex channel; information theory