A tight bound on the number of mobile servers to guarantee the mutual transferability among dominating configurations

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Fujita

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new framework to provide continuous services to users by a collection of mobile servers distributed over an interconnection network. We model those mobile servers as a subset of host computers, and assume that a user host can receive the service if at least one adjacent host computer (including itself) plays the role of a server; i.e., we assume that the service could not be routed via the interconnection network. The main results obtained in this paper are summarized as follows: For the class of trees with n hosts, ⌈(n+1)/2⌉ mobile servers are necessary and sufficient to realize continuous services by the mobile servers, and for the class of Hamiltonian graphs with n hosts, ⌈(n+1)/3⌉ mobile servers are necessary and sufficient.