A unit disk graph is the intersection graph of n congruent disks in the plane. Dominating sets in unit disk graphs are widely studied due to their application in wireless ad-hoc networks. Since the minimum dominating set problem for unit disk graphs is NP-hard, several approximation algorithms with different merits have been proposed in the literature. On one extreme, there is a linear time 5-a...

Locating and Total Dominating Sets in Trees by Jamie Marie Howard A set S of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) is a total dominating set of G if every vertex of V is adjacent to some vertex in S. In this thesis, we consider total dominating sets of minimum cardinality which have the additional property that distinct vertices of V are totally dominated by distinct subsets of the total dominating set.

Given a graphG, the k-dominating graph ofG, Dk(G), is defined to be the graph whose vertices correspond to the dominating sets of G that have cardinality at most k. Two vertices in Dk(G) are adjacent if and only if the corresponding dominating sets of G differ by either adding or deleting a single vertex. The graph Dk(G) aids in studying the reconfiguration problem for dominating sets. In parti...

We study the vulnerability of dominating sets against random and targeted node removals in complex networks. While small, cost-efficient dominating sets play a significant role in controllability and observability of these networks, a fixed and intact network structure is always implicitly assumed. We find that cost-efficiency of dominating sets optimized for small size alone comes at a price o...

A vertex subset S of a graph G is a perfect (resp. quasiperfect) dominating set in G if each vertex v of G \ S is adjacent to only one vertex (dv ∈ {1, 2} vertices) of S. Perfect and quasiperfect dominating sets in the regular tessellation graph of Schläfli symbol {3, 6} and in its toroidal quotients are investigated, yielding the classification of their perfect dominating sets and most of thei...

For an arbitrary undirected simple graph G with m edges, we give an algorithm with running time O(m|L|) to generate the set L of all minimal edge dominating sets of G. For bipartite graphs we obtain a better result; we show that their minimal edge dominating sets can be enumerated in time O(m|L|). In fact our results are stronger; both algorithms generate the next minimal edge dominating set wi...

Recently, there are many papers published in the literature on study of dominating sets, connected dominating sets and their variations motivated from various applications in wireless networks and social networks. In this article, we survey those developments for wireless networking, dominating, and packing problems.