Self-Stabilizing Agent Traversal

  • Authors:
  • Ted Herman;Toshimitsu Masuzawa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WSS '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper introduces the problem of n mobile agents that repeatedly visit all n nodes of a given network, subject to the constraint that no two agents can simultaneously occupy a node. It is shown for a tree network and a synchronous model that this problem has O(驴n) upper and lower time bounds where 驴 is the maximum degree of any vertex in the communication network. The synchronous algorithm is self-stabilizing and can also be used for an asynchronous system. A second algorithm is presented and analyzed to show O(n) round complexity for the case of a line of n asynchronous processes.