How to Synchronize Cellular Automata - Recent Developments -

The synchronization in cellular automata has been known as the firing squad synchronization problem (FSSP) since its development, in which it was originally proposed by Myhill and reported by Moore in 1964 to synchronize all/some parts of self-reproducing cellular automata. The problem has been studied extensively for more than fifty years, and a rich variety of synchronization algorithms has been proposed not only for one-dimensional (1D) arrays but also for multi-dimensional arrays. In the present paper, we construct a survey on the study of FSSP algorithms, focusing on recent developments.