Preprints, Working Papers, ... Year : 2015

Counting with Population Protocols

Abstract

—The population protocol model provides theoretical foundations for analyzing the properties emerging from simple and pairwise interactions among a very large number n of anonymous agents. The problem tackled in this paper is the following one: is there an efficient population protocol that exactly counts the difference κ between the number of agents that initially and independently set their state to A and the one that initially set it to B, assuming that each agent only uses a finite set of states ? We propose a solution which guarantees with any high probability that after O (log n) interactions any agent outputs the exact value of κ. Simulation results illustrate our theoretical analysis.
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hal-01170575 , version 1 (01-07-2015)

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Yves Mocquard, Emmanuelle Anceaume, James Aspnes, Yann Busnel, Bruno Sericola. Counting with Population Protocols. 2015. ⟨hal-01170575⟩
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