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A Family Of Controllable Cellular Automata For Pseudorandom Number Generation

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  • SHENG-UEI GUAN

    (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescents, Singapore 119260, Singapore)

  • SHU ZHANG

    (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescents, Singapore 119260, Singapore)

Abstract

In this paper, we present a family of novel Pseudorandom Number Generators (PRNGs) based on Controllable Cellular Automata (CCA) CCA0, CCA1, CCA2 (NCA), CCA3 (BCA), CCA4 (asymmetric NCA), CCA5, CCA6 and CCA7 PRNGs. The ENT and DIEHARD test suites are used to evaluate the randomness of these CCA PRNGs. The results show that their randomness is better than that of conventional CA and PCA PRNGs while they do not lose the structure simplicity of 1D CA. Moreover, their randomness can be comparable to that of 2D CA PRNGs. Furthermore, we integrate six different types of CCA PRNGs to form CCA PRNG groups to see if the randomness quality of such groups could exceed that of any individual CCA PRNG. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to evolve the configuration of the CCA PRNG groups. Randomness test results on the evolved CCA PRNG groups show that the randomness of the evolved groups is further improved as compared with any individual CCA PRNG.

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  • Sheng-Uei Guan & Shu Zhang, 2002. "A Family Of Controllable Cellular Automata For Pseudorandom Number Generation," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(08), pages 1047-1073.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:13:y:2002:i:08:n:s0129183102003863
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183102003863
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