
New Models for Population Protocols
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published on 15. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-1-60845-589-8 (ISBN)
Description
Wireless sensor networks are about to be part of everyday life. Homes and workplaces capable of self-controlling and adapting air-conditioning for different temperature and humidity levels, sleepless forests ready to detect and react in case of a fire, vehicles able to avoid sudden obstacles or possibly able to self-organize routes to avoid congestion, and so on, will probably be commonplace in the very near future. Mobility plays a central role in such systems and so does passive mobility, that is, mobility of the network stemming from the environment itself. The population protocol model was an intellectual invention aiming to describe such systems in a minimalistic and analysis-friendly way. Having as a starting-point the inherent limitations but also the fundamental establishments of the population protocol model, we try in this monograph to present some realistic and practical enhancements that give birth to some new and surprisingly powerful (for these kind of systems) computational models.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60845-589-8 (9781608455898)
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Content
- Population Protocols
- The Computational Power of Population Protocols
- Enhancing the model
- Mediated Population Protocols and Symmetry
- Passively Mobile Machines that Use Restricted Space
- Conclusions and Open Research Directions
- Acronyms
- Authors' Biographies
- The Computational Power of Population Protocols
- Enhancing the model
- Mediated Population Protocols and Symmetry
- Passively Mobile Machines that Use Restricted Space
- Conclusions and Open Research Directions
- Acronyms
- Authors' Biographies