A new time-optimum synchronization algorithm for two-dimensional cellular arrays

  • Authors:
  • Hiroshi Umeo;Hiroki Uchino

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication, Neyagawa-shi, Osaka, Japan;Univ. of Osaka Electro-Communication, Neyagawa-shi, Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • EUROCAST'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computer aided systems theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The firing squad synchronization problem on cellular automata has been studied extensively for more than forty years, and a rich variety of synchronization algorithms have been proposed so far. In the present paper, we propose a new optimum-time algorithm for synchronizing two-dimensional cellular automata. The algorithm can synchronize any rectangular array of size m × n in optimum m + n + max(m, n) - 3 steps.