Leader election is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, particularly within programmable matter systems, where coordination among simple computational entities is crucial for solving complex tasks. In these systems, particles (i.e., constant-memory computational entities) operate in a regular triangular grid as described in the geometric Amoebot model. While leader election has been extensively studied in non self-stabilising settings, self-stabilising solutions remain more limited. In this work, we study the problem of self-stabilising leader election in connected (but not necessarily simply connected) configurations. We present the first self-stabilising algorithm for connected programmable matter systems that guarantees the election of a unique leader under an unfair scheduler, for oblivious particles (i.e., particles with no persistent memory) that share a common sense of direction. Our approach leverages particle movement, a capability not previously exploited in the self-stabilising context. We show that movement in conjunction with particles sharing a sense of orientation and operating in a grid can overcome classical impossibility results for constant-memory systems established by Dolev, Gouda and Schneider (1999).

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Silent Self-stabilising Leader Election in Programmable Matter Systems with Holes

  • Jérémie Chalopin,
  • Shantanu Das,
  • Maria Kokkou

摘要

Leader election is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, particularly within programmable matter systems, where coordination among simple computational entities is crucial for solving complex tasks. In these systems, particles (i.e., constant-memory computational entities) operate in a regular triangular grid as described in the geometric Amoebot model. While leader election has been extensively studied in non self-stabilising settings, self-stabilising solutions remain more limited. In this work, we study the problem of self-stabilising leader election in connected (but not necessarily simply connected) configurations. We present the first self-stabilising algorithm for connected programmable matter systems that guarantees the election of a unique leader under an unfair scheduler, for oblivious particles (i.e., particles with no persistent memory) that share a common sense of direction. Our approach leverages particle movement, a capability not previously exploited in the self-stabilising context. We show that movement in conjunction with particles sharing a sense of orientation and operating in a grid can overcome classical impossibility results for constant-memory systems established by Dolev, Gouda and Schneider (1999).