Towards higher-dimensional topological self-stabilization: A distributed algorithm for Delaunay graphs

Towards higher-dimensional topological self-stabilization: A distributed algorithm for Delaunay graphs

Abstract

This article studies the construction of self-stabilizing topologies for distributed systems. While recent research has focused on chain topologies where nodes need to be linearized with respect to their identifiers, we explore a natural and relevant 2-dimensional generalization. In particular, we present a local self-stabilizing algorithm DStabDStab which is based on the concept of “local Delaunay graphs” and which forwards temporary edges in greedy fashion reminiscent of compass routing. DStabDStab constructs a Delaunay graph from any initial connected topology and in a distributed manner in time O(n3)O(n3) in the worst-case; if the initial network contains the Delaunay graph, the convergence time is only O(n)O(n) rounds. DStabDStab also ensures that individual node joins and leaves affect a small part of the network only. Such self-stabilizing Delaunay networks have interesting applications and our construction gives insights into the necessary geometric reasoning that is required for higher-dimensional linearization problems.

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Authors
  • Jacob, Riko
  • Ritscher, Stephan
  • Scheideler, Christian
  • Schmid, Stefan
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Category
Journal Paper
Divisions
Communication Technologies
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Journal or Publication Title
Theoretical Computer Science
ISSN
0304-3975
Date
2012
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