Physarum-inspired self-biased walkers for distributed clustering
Paper i proceeding, 2012

We propose a distributed scheme to compute distance-based clusters. We first present a mechanism based on the ow of distributed tokens called walkers, circulating randomly between a source and a sink to compute a shortest path. Each time a walker takes an edge, it reinforces the probability that subsequent walkers take it. This mechanism is a discrete emulation of the slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) dynamics presented in [16]: each node observes the flow of walkers going through each adjacent edge and uses this flow to compute the probabilities with which it sends the walkers through each edge. Then, based on this mechanism, we show how several sources compute a shortest path DAG to a given sink. Finally, given some clusterheads acting like sinks, we show that this process converges to distance-based clusters (i.e. nodes join the clusterhead to which they are closest) with shortest-path DAGs. The algorithm is designed with a special focus on dynamic networks: the flow locally adapts to the appearance and disappearance of links and nodes, including clusterheads.

Författare

Devan Sohier

Georgios Georgiadis

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Simon Claviere

Marina Papatriantafilou

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Nätverk och system

Alain Bui

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 7702 LNCS

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

Ämneskategorier

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-35476-2_22

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