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State-efficient realization of fault-tolerant FSSP algorithms

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Abstract

The firing squad synchronization problem (FSSP, for short) on cellular automata has been studied extensively for more than fifty years, and a rich variety of FSSP algorithms has been proposed. Here we study the classical FSSP on a model of fault-tolerant cellular automata that might have possibly some defective cells and present the first state-efficient implementations of fault-tolerant FSSP algorithms for one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) cellular arrays. It is shown that, under some constraints on the length and distribution of defective cells, any 1D cellular array of length n with p defective cell segments can be synchronized in \(2n-2+p\) steps and the algorithm is realized on a 1D cellular automaton of length \(n, 2 \le n \le 50\), having 164 states and 4792 transition rules. In addition, we give by far a smaller-state implementation of a 2D FSSP algorithm that can synchronize any 2D rectangular array of size \(m \times n\), possibly including at most O(mn) isolated defective zones, exactly in \(2(m+n)-4\) steps on a cellular automaton with only 6 states and 935 transition rules.

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Title
State-efficient realization of fault-tolerant FSSP algorithms
Authors
Hiroshi Umeo
Naoki Kamikawa
Masashi Maeda
Gen Fujita
Publication date
17-10-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Natural Computing / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1567-7818
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9796
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-019-09765-3
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