We propose a fast silent self-stabilizing building a k-independent dominating set, named FID. The convergence of protocol FID, is established for any computation under the unfair distributed scheduler. FID reaches a terminal (also legitimate) configuration in at most 4n+k rounds, where n is the network size. FID requires (k + 1)log(n+ 1) bits per node. keywords distributed computing, fault tole...

Given a graph G, a k-dominating set of G is a subset S of its vertices with the property that every vertex of G is either in S or has at least k neighbors in S. We present a new incremental local algorithm to construct a k-dominating set. The algorithm constructs a monotone family of dominating sets D1 ⊆ D2 . . . ⊆ Di . . . ⊆ Dk such that each Di is an i-dominating set. For unit disk graphs, th...

In this paper we study the NP-complete problem of finding small k-dominating sets in general graphs, which allow k−1 nodes to fail and still dominate the graph. The classic minimum dominating set problem is a special case with k = 1. We show that the approach of having at least k dominating nodes in the neighborhood of every node is not optimal. For each α > 1 it can give solutions k α times la...

A k-signed r-set on [n] = {1, ..., n} is an ordered pair (A, f), where A is an rsubset of [n] and f is a function from A to [k]. Families A1, ...,Ap are said to be cross-intersecting if any set in any family Ai intersects any set in any other family Aj . Hilton proved a sharp bound for the sum of sizes of cross-intersecting families of r-subsets of [n]. Our aim is to generalise Hilton's bound t...

For MSO2-expressible problems like Edge Dominating Set or Hamiltonian Cycle, it was open for a long time whether there is an algorithm which given a clique-width k-expression of an n-vertex graph runs in time f(k) · nO(1) for some function f . Recently, Fomin et al. (SIAM. J. Computing, 2014) presented several lower bounds; for instance, there are no f(k) · n-time algorithms for Edge Dominating...

We propose a fast silent self-stabilizing building a k-independent dominating set, named FID. The convergence of protocol FID, is established for any computation under the unfair distributed scheduler. FID reaches a terminal (also legitimate) configuration in at most 4n+k rounds, where n is the network size. FID requires (k + 1)log(n+ 1) bits per node. keywords distributed computing, fault tole...

Let k be a positive integer and let G = (V,E) be a simple graph. The k-tuple domination number γ×k(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a k-tuple dominating set S, a set that for every vertex v ∈ V , |NG[v]∩S| ≥ k. Also the total k-domination number γ×k,t(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a total k -dominating set S, a set that for every vertex v ∈ V , |NG(v)∩S| ≥ k. The k-transversal numb...