Self-Stabilizing Global Optimization Algorithms for Large Network Graphs.

The paradigm of self-stabilization provides a mechanism to design efficient localized distributed algorithms that are proving to be essential for modern day large networks of sensors. We provide self-stabilizing algorithms (in the shared-variable ID-based model) for three graph optimization problems: a minimal total dominating set (where every node must be adjacent to a node in the set) and its generalizations, a maximal k-packing (a set of nodes where every pair of nodes are more than distance k apart), and a maxima! strong matching (a collection of totally disjoint edges). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]