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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.7

Distributed Computation with Continual Population Growth

Authors: Da-Jung Cho, Matthias Függer, Corbin Hopper, Manish Kushwaha, Thomas Nowak, and Quentin Soubeyran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 179, 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020)

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Computing with synthetically engineered bacteria is a vibrant and active field with numerous applications in bio-production, bio-sensing, and medicine. Motivated by the lack of robustness and by resource limitation inside single cells, distributed approaches with communication among bacteria have recently gained in interest. In this paper, we focus on the problem of population growth happening concurrently, and possibly interfering, with the desired bio-computation. Specifically, we present a fast protocol in systems with continuous population growth for the majority consensus problem and prove that it correctly identifies the initial majority among two inputs with high probability if the initial difference is Ω(√{nlog n}) where n is the total initial population. We also present a fast protocol that correctly computes the NAND of two inputs with high probability. We demonstrate that combining the NAND gate protocol with the continuous-growth majority consensus protocol, using the latter as an amplifier, it is possible to implement circuits computing arbitrary Boolean functions.

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Da-Jung Cho, Matthias Függer, Corbin Hopper, Manish Kushwaha, Thomas Nowak, and Quentin Soubeyran. Distributed Computation with Continual Population Growth. In 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 179, pp. 7:1-7:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{cho_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2020.7,
  author =	{Cho, Da-Jung and F\"{u}gger, Matthias and Hopper, Corbin and Kushwaha, Manish and Nowak, Thomas and Soubeyran, Quentin},
  title =	{{Distributed Computation with Continual Population Growth}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-168-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{179},
  editor =	{Attiya, Hagit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-130856},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2020.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: microbiological circuits, majority consensus, birth-death processes}
}

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