“…A self-stabilizing algorithm under a certain computational model is silent if any execution of the algorithm under that computational model contains a configuration γ such that in the suffix of the execution starting with γ , the values stored in all the local variables and all the shared registers of all the processors never change. Most of the existing self-stabilizing algorithms (e.g., (Collin & Dolev, 1994;Ghosh et al, 1996a;Ghosh et al, 1996b;Ghosh et al, 1996c;Huang, 2005;Huang & Chen, 1992;Hsu & Huang, 1992;Huang & Lin, 2002;Huang et al, 2000;Huang et al, 2007;Huang et al, 2004;Ikeda et al, 2002;Shukla et al, 1995;Tsin, 2007;Turau, 2007;Turau & Hauck, 2009;Tzeng et al, 2007)) are silent.…”