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Rapport (Rapport De Recherche) Année : 2007

Weak vs. Self vs. Probabilistic Stabilization

Résumé

Self-stabilization is a strong property that guarantees that a network always resume correct behavior starting from an arbitrary initial state. Weaker guarantees have later been introduced to cope with impossibility results: probabilistic stabilization only gives probabilistic convergence to a correct behavior. Also, weak stabilization only gives the possibility of convergence. In this paper, we investigate the relative power of weak, self, and probabilistic stabilization, with respect to the set of problems that can be solved. We formally prove that in that sense, weak stabilization is strictly stronger that self-stabilization. Also, we refine previous results on weak stabilization to prove that, for practical schedule instances, a deterministic weak-stabilizing protocol can be turned into a probabilistic self-stabilizing one. This latter result hints at more practical use of weak-stabilization, as such algorthms are easier to design and prove than their (probabilistic) self-stabilizing counterparts.
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Dates et versions

inria-00189952 , version 1 (22-11-2007)
inria-00189952 , version 2 (26-11-2007)

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  • HAL Id : inria-00189952 , version 2
  • ARXIV : 0711.3672

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Stéphane Devismes, Sébastien Tixeuil, Masafumi Yamashita. Weak vs. Self vs. Probabilistic Stabilization. [Research Report] RR-6366, INRIA. 2007. ⟨inria-00189952v2⟩
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