Connected Dominating Set is widely used as virtual backbone in wireless Ad-hoc and sensor networks to improve the performance of transmission and routing protocols. Based on special characteristics of Ad-hoc and sensor networks, we usually use unit disk graph to represent the corresponding geometrical structures, where each node has a unit transmission range and two nodes are said to be adjacen...

Connected Dominating Set is widely used as virtual backbone in wireless networks to improve network performance and optimize routing protocols. Based on special characteristics of ad-hoc and sensor networks, we usually use unit disk graph to represent the corresponding geometrical structures, where each node has a unit transmission range and two nodes are said to be adjacent if the distance bet...

We present a distributed algorithm for finding a (1 + ε)approximation of a Minimum Connected Dominating Set in the class of Growth-Bounded graphs, which includes Unit Disk graphs. In addition, the computed Connected Dominating Set guarantees a constant stretch factor on the length of a shortest path with respect to the original graph and induces a subgraph of constant degree. The nodes do not r...

A bipartite graph G = (X,Y ;E) is convex if there exists a linear enumeration L of the vertices of X such that the neighbours of each vertex of Y are consecutive in L. We show that the problems of finding a minimum dominating set and a minimum independent dominating set in an n-vertex convex bipartite graph are solvable in time O(n2). This improves previous O(n3) algorithms for these problems. ...

We investigate the minimum independent dominating set in perturbed graphs g(G, p) of input graph G = (V,E), obtained by negating the existence of edges independently with a probability p > 0. The minimum independent dominating set (MIDS) problem does not admit a polynomial running time approximation algorithm with worst-case performance ratio of n1− for any > 0. We prove that the size of the mi...

The spread of computer networks, from sensor networks to the Internet, creates an ever growing need for efficient distributed algorithms. In such scenarios, familiar combinatorial structures such as spanning trees and dominating sets are often useful for a variety of tasks. Others, like maximal independent sets, turn out to be a very useful primitive for computing other structures. In a distrib...

In the present paper, we propose an efficient local search for the minimum independent dominating set problem. We consider a local search that uses k-swap as the neighborhood operation. Given a feasible solution S, it is the operation of obtaining another feasible solution by dropping exactly k vertices from S and then by adding any number of vertices to it. We show that, when k = 2, (resp., k ...

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E′ ⊆ E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by exactly one edge of E′ then E′ is a dominating induced matching. It is known that not every graph admits a dominating induced matching, while the problem to de...

The trace of a family of sets A on a set X is A|X = {A ∩ X : A ∈ A}. If A is a family of k-sets from an n-set such that for any r-subset X the trace A|X does not contain a maximal chain, then how large can A be? Patkós conjectured that, for n sufficiently large, the size of A is at most ( n−k+r−1 r−1 ) . Our aim in this paper is to prove this conjecture.