Uniform Deterministic Self-Stabilizing Ring-Orientation on Odd-Length Rings (1994) [12 citations — 2 self]
Abstract:
The ring-orientation problem requires all processors on an anonymous ring to reach agreement on a direction along the ring. A self-stabilizing ring-orientation protocol eventually ensures that all processors on the ring agree on a direction, regardless of the initial states of the processors on which the protocol is started. In this paper we present two uniform deterministic self-stabilizing ring-orientation protocols for rings with an odd number of processors using only a constant number of states per processor. The first protocol is an adaption of a randomized protocol presented by Israeli and Jalfon [IJ93], and operates in the link-register model under the distributed daemon. The second protocol operates in the state-reading model under the central daemon, and complements the impossibility results proven in [IJ93]. Both protocols do not assume an upper-bound on the length of the ring, and are therefore applicable to dynamic rings. Applying our results we are able to prove that on an odd-length ring, the link-register model and the state-reading model are, in some sense, equivalent.
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