Jennifer E. Walter
Vassar College
21 Papers
418 Citations
Jennifer E. Walter is an academic researcher from Vassar College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Control reconfiguration & Distributed algorithm. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Jennifer E. Walter include Texas A&M University.
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Papers
A Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks
TL;DR: Experimental results indicate that adaptation to mobility can improve performance over that of similar non-adaptive algorithms when nodes are mobile.
Distributed reconfiguration of metamorphic robot chains
TL;DR: This work describes distributed algorithms for reconfiguring a straight chain of hexagonal modules to any intersecting straight chain configuration and proves their algorithms are correct, and show that they are either optimal or asymptotically optimal in the number of moves and in the time required for parallel reconfiguration.
An asynchronous leader election algorithm for dynamic networks
Rebecca Ingram,Patrick Shields,Jennifer E. Walter,Jennifer L. Welch +3 more
- 23 May 2009
TL;DR: In this article, an algorithm for electing a leader in an asynchronous network with dynamically changing communication topology is presented, which ensures that, no matter what pattern of topology changes occur, if topology change ceases, then eventually every connected component contains a unique leader.
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Algorithms for fast concurrent reconfiguration of hexagonal metamorphic robots
TL;DR: A deterministic, distributed algorithm is presented that finds and heuristically ranks all admissible substrate paths in the goal configuration, according to which path is likely to result in fast parallel reconfiguration, and proves the correctness of the path-finding algorithm and its effectiveness through simulation.
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Distributed reconfiguration of metamorphic robot chains
Jennifer E. Walter,Jennifer L. Welch,Nancy M. Amato +2 more
- 16 Jul 2000
TL;DR: A distributed algorithm for reconfiguring a straight chain of hexagonal modules at one location to any intersecting straight chain configuration at some other location in the plane is presented.