Distance-2-Dispersion with Termination by a Strong Team

Barun Gorain, Tanvir Kaur, Kaushik Mondal

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Abstract

Distance-2-Dispersion (D-2-D) problem aims to disperse k mobile robots starting from an arbitrary initial configuration on an anonymous port-labeled graph G with n nodes such that no two robots occupy adjacent nodes in the final configuration, though multiple robots may occupy a single node if there is no other empty node whose all adjacent nodes are also empty. In the existing literature, this problem is solved starting from a rooted configuration for k(≥ 1 ) robots using O(mΔ) synchronous rounds with a total of O(log n) memory per robot, where m is the number of edges and Δ is the maximum degree of the graph. In this work, we start with k> n mobile robots and improve the run time to O(m) starting from a rooted configuration using the same amount of memory per robot. Further, we achieve D-2-D for an arbitrary initial configuration in O(pm) rounds using O(log n) memory per robot, where p is the number of nodes containing robots in the initial configuration. Both the algorithms terminate without any global knowledge of m, n, Δ, k, p. As we start with k> n robots, the nodes occupied by robots in the final configuration form a maximal independent set of the graph.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics - 10th International Conference, CALDAM 2024, Proceedings
EditorsSubrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, Anil Maheshwari
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages44-58
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031522123
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2024 - Bhilai, India
Duration: 15 Feb 202417 Feb 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14508 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2024
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityBhilai
Period15/02/2417/02/24

Keywords

  • Deterministic algorithm
  • Dispersion
  • Distance-2-Dispersion
  • Distributed algorithm
  • Mobile robots

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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