For an integer k ≥ 1 and a graph G = (V,E), a set S of V is k-independent if ∆(S) < k and k-dominating if every vertex in V \S has at least k neighbors in S. The k-independence number βk(G) is the maximum cardinality of a k-independent set and the k-dominating number is the minimum cardinality of a k-dominating set of G. Since every kindependent set is (k + 1)-independent and every (k + 1)-domi...

Preprocessing by data reduction is a simple but powerful technique used for practically solving different network problems. A number of empirical studies shows that a set of reduction rules for solving Dominating Set problems introduced by Alber, Fellows & Niedermeier leads efficiently to optimal solutions for many realistic networks. Despite of the encouraging experiments, the only class of gr...

Connected dominating set based routing is a promising approach for enhancing the routing efficiency in the mobile ad hoc networks. However, finding the minimum dominating set in an arbitrary graph is an NP-complete problem. Restricted Rule k is a localized algorithm for finding a small dominating set in mobile ad hoc networks. It starts with a large initial dominating set and uses the local inf...

A distance-k dominating set S of a directed graph D is a set of vertices such that for every vertex v of D, there is a vertex u ∈ S at distance at most k from it. Minimum distance-k dominating set is especially important in communication networks for distributed data structure and for server placement. In this paper, we shall present simple distributed algorithms for finding the unique minimum ...

A distance-k dominating set S of a directed graph D is a set of vertices such that for every vertex v of D, there is a vertex u ∈ S at distance at most k from it. Minimum distance-k dominating set is especially important in communication networks for distributed data structure and for server placement. In this paper, we shall present simple distributed algorithms for finding the unique minimum ...

We study dominating sets whose induced subgraphs have a bounded diameter. Such sets were used in recent papers by Kim et al. and Yu et al. to model virtual backbones in wireless networks where the number of hops required to forward messages within the backbone is minimized. We prove that for any fixed k ≥ 1 it is NP-complete to decide whether a given graph admits a dominating set whose induced ...

&lrm;It is a well-known fact that finding a minimum dominating set and consequently the domination number of a general graph is an NP-complete problem&lrm;. &lrm;In this paper&lrm;, &lrm;we first model it as a nonlinear binary optimization problem and then extract two closely related semidefinite relaxations&lrm;. &lrm;For each of these relaxations&lrm;, &lrm;different rounding algorithm is exp...

We give the first linear kernels for Dominating Set and Connected Dominating Set problems on graphs excluding a fixed graph H as a topological minor. In other words, we give polynomial time algorithms that, for a given H-topological-minor free graph G and a positive integer k, output an H-topological-minor free graph G′ on O(k) vertices such that G has a (connected) dominating set of size k if ...

A class of graphs is said to be biclique-free if there is an integer t such that no graph in the class contains Kt,t as a subgraph. Large families of graph classes, such as any nowhere dense class of graphs or d-degenerate graphs, are biclique-free. We show that various domination problems are fixed-parameter tractable on biclique-free classes of graphs, when parameterizing by both solution siz...

A k-tuple coloring of a graph G assigns a set of k colors to each vertex of G such that if two vertices are adjacent, the corresponding sets of colors are disjoint. The k-tuple chromatic number of G, χk(G), is the smallest t so that there is a k-tuple coloring of G using t colors. It is well known that χ(G2H) = max{χ(G), χ(H)}. In this paper, we show that there exist graphs G and H such that χk...