Adapting to asynchronous dynamic networks (extended abstract)
Baruch Awerbuch, Boaz Patt-Shamir, David Peleg, Michael Saks · 1992
The computational power of different communication models is a fundamental question in the theory of distributed computation. For example, in the synchronous model messages are assumed to be delivered within one time unit, whereas in the asynchronous model message delays may be arbitrary. Another important parameter of the model is the assumptions about the topology. In the dynamic topology model, links are assumed to crash and recover dynamically, but their status is known to the incident node processors. A meaningful computation can be carried out if the topology stabilizes for a sufficiently long period.