We consider setting up sleep scheduling in sensor networks. We formulate the problem as an instance of the fractional domatic partition problem and obtain a distributed approximation algorithm by applying linear programming approximation techniques. Our algorithm is an application of the Garg-Könemann (GK) scheme that requires solving an instance of the minimum weight dominating set (MWDS) prob...

We exploit the close relationship between circular arc graphs and interval graphs to design efficient approximation algorithms for NP-hard Optimization problems on circular arc graphs. The problems considered here are maximum domatic partition and on-line minimum vertex coloring. We present a heuristic for the domatic partition problem with a performance ratio of 4. For on-line coloring, we con...

Let G = (V,E) be an undirected graph and let π = {V1, V2, . . . , Vk} be a partition of the vertices V of G into k blocks Vi. From this partition one can construct the following digraph D(π) = (π,E(π)), the vertices of which correspond one-to-one with the k blocks Vi of π, and there is an arc from Vi to Vj if every vertex in Vj is adjacent to at least one vertex in Vi, that is, Vi dominates Vj ...

The domatic partition problem seeks to maximize the partitioning of the nodes of the network into disjoint dominating sets. These sets represent a series of virtual backbones for wireless sensor networks to be activated successively, resulting in more balanced energy consumption and increased network robustness. In this study, we address the domatic partition problem in random geometric graphs ...