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We consider leader election in clique networks, where $n$ nodes are connected by point-to-point communication links. For the synchronous clique under simultaneous wake-up, i.e., where all nodes start executing the algorithm in round $1$, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Shay Kutten , Peter Robinson , Ming Ming Tan , Xianbin Zhu

Self-stabilization is a general paradigm to provide forward recovery capabilities to distributed systems and networks. Intuitively, a protocol is self-stabilizing if it is able to recover without external intervention from any catastrophic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Stéphane Devismes , Toshimitsu Masuzawa , Sébastien Tixeuil

Population protocols are a model of distributed computing, in which $n$ agents with limited local state interact randomly, and cooperate to collectively compute global predicates. An extensive series of papers, across different communities,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Dan Alistarh , James Aspnes , Rati Gelashvili

In this paper, the leader election problem in the population protocol model is considered. A leader election protocol with logarithmic stabilization time is given. Given a rough knowledge m of the population size n such that m >= \log_2 n…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Yuichi Sudo , Fukuhito Ooshita , Taisuke Izumi , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

We study the leader election problem in oriented ring networks under content-oblivious asynchronous message-passing systems, where an adversary may arbitrarily corrupt message contents. Frei et al. (DISC 2024) presented a uniform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jérémie Chalopin , Yi-Jun Chang , Lyuting Chen , Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Haoran Zhou

The problem of electing a leader from among $n$ contenders is one of the fundamental questions in distributed computing. In its simplest formulation, the task is as follows: given $n$ processors, all participants must eventually return a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Dan Alistarh , Rati Gelashvili , Adrian Vladu

We consider the energy complexity of the leader election problem in the single-hop radio network model, where each device has a unique identifier in $\{1, 2, \ldots, N\}$. Energy is a scarce resource for small battery-powered devices. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yi-Jun Chang , Ran Duan , Shunhua Jiang

Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, in which randomly-interacting agents with little computational power cooperate to jointly perform computational tasks. Inspired by developments in molecular computation, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Dan Alistarh , James Aspnes , David Eisenstat , Rati Gelashvili , Ronald L. Rivest

We study the message complexity of leader election in synchronous networks of diameter two. Our main contribution is a refined analysis of the randomized algorithm proposed by Chatterjee et al. [DC, 2020]. In their work, the authors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abhijit Sadhukhan , Adri Bhattacharya , Anisur Rahaman Molla

We address the self-stabilizing bit-dissemination problem, designed to capture the challenges of spreading information and reaching consensus among entities with minimal cognitive and communication capacities. Specifically, a group of $n$…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Niccolò D'Archivio , Robin Vacus

We study the problem of reaching agreement in a synchronous distributed system by $n$ autonomous parties, when the communication links from/to faulty parties can omit messages. The faulty parties are selected and controlled by an adaptive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jan Olkowski

In content-oblivious computation, n nodes wish to compute a given task over an asynchronous network that suffers from an extremely harsh type of noise, which corrupts the content of all messages across all channels. In a recent work,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Fabian Frei , Ran Gelles , Ahmed Ghazy , Alexandre Nolin

We consider leader election in anonymous radio networks modeled as simple undirected connected graphs. Nodes communicate in synchronous rounds. Nodes are anonymous and execute the same deterministic algorithm, so symmetry can be broken only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc , Ram Narayan Yadav

In the stochastic population protocol model, we are given a connected graph with $n$ nodes, and in every time step, a scheduler samples an edge of the graph uniformly at random and the nodes connected by this edge interact. A fundamental…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Dan Alistarh , Joel Rybicki , Sasha Voitovych

Population protocols are networks of finite-state agents, interacting randomly, and updating their states using simple rules. Despite their extreme simplicity, these systems have been shown to cooperatively perform complex computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Dan Alistarh , Rati Gelashvili

In this paper, we investigate the leader election problem in diameter-two networks. Recently, Chatterjee et al. [DC 2020] studied the leader election in diameter-two networks. They presented a $O(\log n)$-round deterministic {implicit}…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

This paper shows that every leader election protocol requires logarithmic stabilization time both in expectation and with high probability in the population protocol model. This lower bound holds even if each agent has knowledge of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuichi Sudo , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

A self-stabilizing algorithm for the minimal $\alpha$-dominating set is proposed in this paper. The $\alpha$-domination parameter has not used before in self-stabilization paradigm. Using an arbitrary graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Badreddine Benreguia , Hamouma Moumen

We present a self-stabilizing algorithm for the (asynchronous) unison problem which achieves an efficient trade-off between time, workload, and space in a weak model. Precisely, our algorithm is defined in the atomic-state model and works…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Stéphane Devismes , David Ilcinkas , Colette Johnen , Frédéric Mazoit

We study the problems of leader election and population size counting for population protocols: networks of finite-state anonymous agents that interact randomly under a uniform random scheduler. We show a protocol for leader election that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos