Title
Gracefully Degrading Gathering In Dynamic Rings
Abstract
Gracefully degrading algorithms [Biely et al., TCS 2018] are designed to circumvent impossibility results in dynamic systems by adapting themselves to the dynamics. Indeed, such an algorithm solves a given problem under some dynamics and, moreover, guarantees that a weaker (but related) problem is solved under a higher dynamics under which the original problem is impossible to solve. The underlying intuition is to solve the problem whenever possible but to provide some kind of quality of service if the dynamics become (unpredictably) higher.In this paper, we apply for the first time this approach to robot networks. We focus on the fundamental problem of gathering a squad of autonomous robots on an unknown location of a dynamic ring. In this goal, we introduce a set of weaker variants of this problem. Motivated by a set of impossibility results related to the dynamics of the ring, we propose a gracefully degrading gathering algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-03232-6_23
STABILIZATION, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, SSS 2018
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Gracefully degrading algorithm, Dynamic ring, Gathering
Conference
11201
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marjorie Bournat100.68
Swan Dubois214517.21
Franck Petit373660.02