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TitleTerminating Population Protocols via some Minimal Global Knowledge Assumptions
Bibtex cite IDRACTI-RU1-2015-3
Journal Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
Year published 2015
Volume 81-82
Pages 1-10
Note To appear
URL http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Qu9D_GwHPHgSB
DOI 10.1016/j.jpdc.2015.02.005
Keywords population protocol,cover-time service,rendezvous-based communication,interaction,counter machine,absence detector,linear-bounded automaton
Abstract
We extend the population protocol model with a cover-time service that informs a walking state every time it covers the whole network. This represents a known upper bound on the cover time of a random walk. The cover-time service allows us to introduce termination into population protocols, a capability that is crucial for any distributed system. By reduction to an oracle-model we arrive at a very satisfactory lower bound on the computational power of the model: we prove that it is at least as strong as a Turing Machine of space log n with input commutativity, where n is the number of nodes in the network. We also give a log n-space, but nondeterministic this time, upper bound. Finally, we prove interesting similarities of this model to linear bounded automata.
Authors
Michail, Othon
Spirakis, Paul
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