Yet Another New Optimum-time Synchronization Algorithm for Two-dimensional Arrays
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The firing squad synchronization problem has been studied extensively for more than forty years, and a rich variety of synchronization algorithms have been proposed. In the present paper, we give a new optimum-time algorithm for synchronizing twodimensional cellular automata. Its state-efficient implementation is also given.
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