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Natural Calamities Demand More Rescuers: Exploring Connectivity Time Dynamic Graphs

Authors Ashish Saxena , Kaushik Mondal

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  • Theory of computation → Distributed algorithms
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  • Mobile agents
  • Anonymous graphs
  • Exploration
  • Dynamic graphs
  • Deterministic algorithm

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Abstract

We study the exploration problem by mobile agents in Connectivity Time dynamic graphs. The Connectivity Time model was introduced by Michail et al. [JPDC 2014] and is arguably one of the weakest dynamic graph connectivity models. We prove that exploration is impossible in such graphs using ((n-1)(n-2))/2 mobile agents starting from an arbitrary initial configuration, even when agents have full knowledge of system parameters, global communication, full visibility, and infinite memory. We then present an exploration algorithm that uses ((n-1)(n-2))/2 + 1 agents equipped with global communication, 1-hop visibility and O(log n) memory.

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Ashish Saxena and Kaushik Mondal. Natural Calamities Demand More Rescuers: Exploring Connectivity Time Dynamic Graphs. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 41:1-41:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.41

Author Details

Ashish Saxena
  • Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India
Kaushik Mondal
  • Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

Funding

  • Saxena, Ashish: Acknowledge the financial support from IIT Ropar.
  • Mondal, Kaushik: Acknowledge the ISIRD grant provided by IIT Ropar.

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