Self-Stabilizing Token Distribution on Trees With Constant Space

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Publication Title

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volume

146

First page number:

201

Last page number:

211

Abstract

Self-stabilizing and silent distributed algorithms for token distribution in rooted tree networks are given. Initially, each process of a graph holds at most l tokens. Our goal is to distribute the tokens uniformly in the whole network so that every process holds exactly k tokens. In the initial configuration, the total number of tokens in the network may not be nk where n is the number of processes in the network. The root process is given the ability to create a new token or remove a token from the network. We aim to minimize the convergence time, the number of token moves, and the space complexity. First, a self-stabilizing token distribution algorithm that converges within O(nl) asynchronous rounds and needs Theta(nh epsilon) redundant (or unnecessary) token moves is given, where epsilon = min(k, l - k) and h is the height of the tree network. Next, two novel mechanisms to reduce the number of redundant token moves are presented. One reduces the number of redundant token moves to O(nh) without any additional costs while the other reduces the number of redundant token moves to O(n), but increases the convergence time to O(nhl). All given algorithms have constant memory at each process and each link register. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.

Keywords

Token distribution; Self-stabilization; Constant space algorithm

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Theory and Algorithms

Language

English

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