Acyclic Strategy for Silent Self-Stabilization in Spanning Forests

International audienceWe formalize design patterns, commonly used in self-stabilization, to obtain general statements regarding both correctness and time complexity. Precisely, we study a class of algorithms devoted to networks endowed with a sense of direction describing a spanning forest whose characterization is a simple (i.e., quasi-syntactic) condition. We show that any algorithm of this class is (1) silent and self-stabilizing under the distributed unfair daemon, and (2) has a stabilization time polynomial in moves and asymptotically optimal in rounds. To illustrate the versatility of our method, we review several works where our results apply