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We consider cooperation among insects, modeled as cooperation between mobile robots on a graph. Within this setting, we consider the problem of mobile robot dispersion on graphs. The study of mobile robots on a graph is an interesting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Anisur Rahaman Molla , William K. Moses

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

The dispersion problem on graphs requires $k$ robots placed arbitrarily at the $n$ nodes of an anonymous graph, where $k \leq n$, to coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration in which each robot is at a distinct node of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Faizan Ali

Dispersion of mobile robots over the nodes of an anonymous graph is an important problem and turns out to be a crucial subroutine for designing efficient algorithms for many fundamental graph problems via mobile robots. In this problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rik Banerjee , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

Given an undirected, anonymous, port-labeled graph of $n$ memory-less nodes, $m$ edges, and degree $\Delta$, we consider the problem of dispersing $k\leq n$ robots (or tokens) positioned initially arbitrarily on one or more nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Gokarna Sharma

In the dispersion problem, a set of $k$ co-located mobile robots must relocate themselves in distinct nodes of an unknown network. The network is modeled as an anonymous graph $G=(V,E)$, where the nodes of the graph are not labeled. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Barun Gorain , Partha Sarathi Mandal , Kaushik Mondal , Supantha Pandit

We study the dispersion problem in anonymous port-labeled graphs: $k \leq n$ mobile agents, each with a unique ID and initially located arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, must autonomously relocate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

The introduction and study of dispersing mobile robots across the nodes of an anonymous graph have recently gained traction and have been explored within various graph classes and settings. While optimal dispersion solution was established…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rik Banerjee , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla

We introduce a new problem in the domain of mobile robots, which we term dispersion. In this problem, $n$ robots are placed in an $n$ node graph arbitrarily and must coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration such that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 John Augustine , William K. Moses

The dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of the graph. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Given a set of co-located mobile robots in an unknown anonymous graph, the robots must relocate themselves in distinct graph nodes to solve the dispersion problem. In this paper, we consider the dispersion problem for silent robots…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bibhuti Das , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya , Supantha Pandit

The dispersion problem has received much attention recently in the distributed computing literature. In this problem, $k\leq n$ agents placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node, $m$-edge anonymous graph of maximum degree…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

We consider the mobile robot dispersion problem in the presence of faulty robots (crash-fault). Mobile robot dispersion consists of $k\leq n$ robots in an $n$-node anonymous graph. The goal is to ensure that regardless of the initial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Prabhat Kumar Chand , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Sumathi Sivasubramaniam

In this work, we study the problem of dispersion of mobile robots on dynamic rings. The problem of dispersion of $n$ robots on an $n$ node graph, introduced by Augustine and Moses Jr. [1], requires robots to coordinate with each other and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ankush Agarwalla , John Augustine , William K. Moses , Madhav Sankar K. , Arvind Krishna Sridhar

The aim of the dispersion problem is to place a set of $k(\leq n)$ mobile robots in the nodes of an unknown graph consisting of $n$ nodes such that in the final configuration each node contains at most one robot, starting from any arbitrary…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Tanvir Kaur , Kaushik Mondal

The well-studied DISPERSION problem is a fundamental coordination problem in distributed robotics, where a set of mobile robots must relocate so that each occupies a distinct node of a network. DISPERSION assumes that a robot can settle at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Himani , Supantha Pandit , Gokarna Sharma

Consider that there are $k\le n$ agents in a simple, connected, and undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges. The goal of the dispersion problem is to move these $k$ agents to mutually distinct nodes. Agents can communicate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yuichi Sudo , Masahiro Shibata , Junya Nakamura , Yonghwan Kim , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Dispersion by mobile agents is a well studied problem in the literature on computing by mobile robots. In this problem, $l$ robots placed arbitrarily on nodes of a network having $n$ nodes are asked to relocate themselves autonomously so…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Brati Mondal , Pritam Goswami , Buddhadeb Sau

We study the \textit{min-sum uniform coverage} problem for a swarm of $n$ mobile robots on a given finite line segment and on a circle having finite positive radius, where the circle is given as an input. The robots must coordinate their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Animesh Maiti , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Subhash Bhagat , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

Distance-2-Dispersion (D-2-D) problem aims to disperse $k$ mobile agents starting from an arbitrary initial configuration on an anonymous port-labeled graph $G$ with $n$ nodes such that no two agents occupy adjacent nodes in the final…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tanvir Kaur , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal
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