How to Simulate Message-Passing Algorithms in Mobile Agent Systems with Faults

• Published in: Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems Vol. 10616; pp. 234 - 249
• Main Authors: Gotoh, Tsuyoshi, Ooshita, Fukuhito, Kakugawa, Hirotsugu, Masuzawa, Toshimitsu
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• ISBN: 9783319690834; 3319690833
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69084-1_16

We propose a fault-tolerant algorithm to simulate message-passing algorithms in mobile agent systems. We consider a mobile agent system with k agents where f of them may crash for a given f (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\le k-1$$\end{document}). The algorithm simulates a message-passing algorithm, say Z, with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$O((m+M)f)$$\end{document} total agent moves where m is the number of links in the network and M is the total number of messages created in the simulated execution of Z. The previous algorithm [5] can tolerate \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$k-1$$\end{document} agent crashes but requires \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$O((m+nM)k)$$\end{document} total agent moves. Therefore, our algorithm improves the total number of agent moves for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$f=k-1$$\end{document} and requires a smaller number of total moves if f is smaller.