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We investigate self-stabilizing algorithms for anonymous and oblivious robots in uniform ring networks, that is, we focus on algorithms that can start from any initial configuration (including those with multiplicity points). First, we show that there exists no probabilistic self-stabilizing gathering algorithm in the non-atomic CORDA model or if only global-weak and local-strong multiplicity detection is available. This impossibility result implies that a common assumption about initial configurations (no two robots share an node initially) is a very strong one.
On the positive side, we give a probabilistic self-stabilizing algorithm for the gathering and orientation problems in the atomic ATOM model with global-strong multiplicity detection. With respect to impossibility results, those are the weakest system hypotheses. In addition, as an application of the previous algorithm, we provide a self-stabilizing algorithm for the set formation problem. Our results imply that any static set formation can be realized in a self-stabilizing manner in this model.
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Ooshita, F., Tixeuil, S. (2012). On the Self-stabilization of Mobile Oblivious Robots in Uniform Rings. In: Richa, A.W., Scheideler, C. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33536-5_6
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