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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 24 No. 6, pp. 1859-1872


The Self-Stabilizing Edge-Token and Its Applications


Su-Shen Hung and Shing-Tsaan Huang+
Department of Computer Science 
National Tsing Hua University 
Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan 
+Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Central University 
Taoyuan, 320 Taiwan


    Consider a connected graph with nodes (or processes) and edges (or communication links). An edge token associated with an edge is a token maintained by the two nodes connected by the edge; one and only one of the two nodes holds the token. An edge token can be passed from one node to the other if so desired. This paper first presents a randomized self-stabilizing algorithm to implement the edge token, in which each process maintains two three-state variables for an edge; the scheme works under the distributed scheduler with the read/write atomicity. Then, the edge token algorithm is used as a building block in two other self-stabilizing algorithms: one is for ring orientation problem and the other for token circulation problem on trees. All the proposed algorithms are uniform.


Keywords: edge token, leader election, mutual exclusion, orientation, self-stabilization

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