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Brief Announcement: Deterministic Leader Election in Self-organizing Particle Systems

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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018)

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We consider the leader election problem in the geometric Amoebot model in which nodes have no unique identifiers and only share a common local sense of direction. Unlike other works, we consider the deterministic leader election problem for general connected systems. We propose a new deterministic leader election protocol that always succeeds in finding 1, 2, 3, or 6 leaders. We show that if the protocol does not elect a unique leader, deterministic leader election impossible for the system.

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Rida A. Bazzi & Joseph L. Briones

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  1. Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

    Taisuke Izumi

  2. Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

    Petr Kuznetsov

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Bazzi, R.A., Briones, J.L. (2018). Brief Announcement: Deterministic Leader Election in Self-organizing Particle Systems. In: Izumi, T., Kuznetsov, P. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11201. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03232-6_25

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