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Title | Terminating Population Protocols via some Minimal Global Knowledge Assumptions |
Bibtex cite ID | RACTI-RU1-2012-24 |
Booktitle | 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2012) |
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Year published | 2012 |
Volume | 7596 |
Pages | 77-89 |
Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-642-33536-5_8 |
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 is simply a known upper bound on the cover time of a random walk. This 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 logn with input commutativity, where n is the number of nodes in the network. We also give a logn-space, but nondeterministic this time, upper bound. Finally, we prove interesting similarities of this model to linear bounded automata. |
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Publication ID | 973 |
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