A computational model reflecting fundamental computational aspects of wirelessly communicating mobile processors is presented. In essence, our model is a deterministic Turing machine that can launch new processes among which a wireless communication via explicitly assigned channels must be programmed. We show that computations of such machines are polynomially time- and space-equivalent to the synchronized alternating Turing machines studied previously in the literature. This shows that nondeterminism can be completely eliminated from synchronized alternation at the price of introducing a program-driven communication among the respective processors.
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Wiedermann, J., Pardubská, D. (2008). On the Power of Broadcasting in Mobile Computing. In: Cooper, S.B., Löwe, B., Sorbi, A. (eds) New Computational Paradigms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68546-5_9
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