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

A vertex dominating path in a graph is a path P such that every vertex outside P has a neighbor on P . In 1988 H. Broersma stated a result implying that every n-vertex kconnected graph G such that σ(k+2)(G) ≥ n− 2k − 1 contains a dominating path. We show that every n-vertex k-connected graph with σ2(G) ≥ 2n k+2 + f(k) contains a dominating path of length at most O(|T |), where T is a minimum do...

A edge 2-rainbow dominating function (E2RDF) of a graph G is a ‎function f from the edge set E(G) to the set of all subsets‎ ‎of the set {1,2} such that for any edge.......................

A subset D of vertices of a graph G is a dominating set if for each u ∈ V (G) \ D, u is adjacent to somevertex v ∈ D. The domination number, γ(G) ofG, is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G. A setD ⊆ V (G) is a total dominating set if for eachu ∈ V (G), u is adjacent to some vertex v ∈ D. Thetotal domination number, γt (G) of G, is theminimum cardinality of a total dominating set o...

Assume we have a set of k colors and to each vertex of a graph G we assign an arbitrary subset of these colors. If we require that each vertex to which an empty set is assigned has in its neighborhood all k colors, then this is called the k-rainbow dominating function of a graph G. The corresponding invariant γrk(G), which is the minimum sum of numbers of assigned colors over all vertices of G,...

We propose a memory efficient self-stabilizing protocol building k-independent dominating sets. A k-independent dominating set is a k-independent set and a kdominating set. A set of nodes, I, is k-independent if the distance between any pair of nodes in I is at least k + 1. A set of nodes, D, is a k-dominating if every node is within distance k of a node of D. Our algorithm, named SID, is silen...

We propose a memory efficient self-stabilizing protocol building k-independent dominating sets. A k-independent dominating set is a k-independent set and a kdominating set. A set of nodes, I, is k-independent if the distance between any pair of nodes in I is at least k + 1. A set of nodes, D, is a k-dominating if every node is within distance k of a node of D. Our algorithm, named SID, is silen...

let $d=(v,a)$ be a finite simple directed graph. a function$f:vlongrightarrow {-1,0,1}$ is called a twin minus dominatingfunction (tmdf) if $f(n^-[v])ge 1$ and $f(n^+[v])ge 1$ for eachvertex $vin v$. the twin minus domination number of $d$ is$gamma_{-}^*(d)=min{w(f)mid f mbox{ is a tmdf of } d}$. inthis paper, we initiate the study of twin minus domination numbersin digraphs and present some lo...

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...

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 ...