Rumor spreading and vertex expansion on regular graphs

We study the relation between the vertex expansion of a graph and the performance of randomized rumor spreading (push model). We prove that randomized rumor spreading takes O((1/α) · polylog(n)) time on any regular n-vertex graph with vertex expansion α. This bound extends previously known upper bounds by replacing conductance by vertex expansion. Our result is almost tight in the sense that the dependency on (1/α) is optimal (up to logarithmic...