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Computability of Perpetual Exploration in Highly Dynamic Rings

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We consider systems made of autonomous mobile robots evolving in highly dynamic discrete environment i.e., graphs where edges may appear and disappear unpredictably without any recurrence, stability, nor periodicity assumption. Robots are uniform (they execute the same algorithm), they are anonymous (they are devoid of any observable ID), they have no means allowing them to communicate together, they share no common sense of direction, and they have no global knowledge related to the size of the environment. However, each of them is endowed with persistent memory and is able to detect whether it stands alone at its current location. A highly dynamic environment is modeled by a graph such that its topology keeps continuously changing over time. In this paper, we consider only dynamic graphs in which nodes are anonymous, each of them is infinitely often reachable from any other one, and such that its underlying graph (i.e., the static graph made of the same set of nodes and that includes all edges that are present at least once over time) forms a ring of arbitrary size. In this context, we consider the fundamental problem of perpetual exploration: each node is required to be infinitely often visited by a robot. This paper analyzes the computability of this problem in (fully) synchronous settings, i.e., we study the deterministic solvability of the problem with respect to the number of robots. We provide three algorithms and two impossibility results that characterize, for any ring size, the necessary and sufficient number of robots to perform perpetual exploration of highly dynamic rings.
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hal-01417565 , version 1 (15-12-2016)
hal-01417565 , version 2 (29-03-2017)

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Marjorie Bournat, Swan Dubois, Franck Petit. Computability of Perpetual Exploration in Highly Dynamic Rings. [Research Report] Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 [LIP6]; UPMC Sorbonne Universités/CNRS/Inria - EPI REGAL. 2016. ⟨hal-01417565v2⟩
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