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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.11
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-176311
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/17631/
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Inoue, Taichi ; Kitamura, Naoki ; Izumi, Taisuke ; Masuzawa, Toshimitsu

Computational Power of a Single Oblivious Mobile Agent in Two-Edge-Connected Graphs

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Abstract

We investigated the computational power of a single mobile agent in an n-node graph with storage (i.e., node memory). Generally, a system with one-bit agent memory and O(1)-bit storage is as powerful as that with O(n)-bit agent memory and O(1)-bit storage. Thus, we focus on the difference between one-bit memory and oblivious (i.e., zero-bit memory) agents. Although their computational powers are not equivalent, all the known results exhibiting such a difference rely on the fact that oblivious agents cannot transfer any information from one side to the other across the bridge edge. Hence, our main question is as follows: Are the computational powers of one-bit memory and oblivious agents equivalent in 2-edge-connected graphs or not? The main contribution of this study is to answer this question under the relaxed assumption that each node has O(logΔ)-bit storage (where Δ is the maximum degree of the graph). We present an algorithm for simulating any algorithm for a single one-bit memory agent using an oblivious agent with O(n²)-time overhead per round. Our results imply that the topological structure of graphs differentiating the computational powers of oblivious and non-oblivious agents is completely characterized by the existence of bridge edges.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{inoue_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.11,
  author =	{Inoue, Taichi and Kitamura, Naoki and Izumi, Taisuke and Masuzawa, Toshimitsu},
  title =	{{Computational Power of a Single Oblivious Mobile Agent in Two-Edge-Connected Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-265-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{253},
  editor =	{Hillel, Eshcar and Palmieri, Roberto and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/17631},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-176311},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: mobile agent, depth-first search, space complexity}
}

Keywords: mobile agent, depth-first search, space complexity
Collection: 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2022)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 15.02.2023


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