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Fault-Tolerant Connected Dominating Set

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  • 2010; Kim, Wang, Li, Zhang, Wu

  • 2013; Wang, Kim, An, Gao, Li, Zhang, Wu

Problem Definition

The problem of interest is to find a virtual backbone with a certain level of fault tolerance. Virtual backbone is a subset of nodes to be in charge of routing messages among the other nodes and is a very effective tool to improve the communication efficiency of various wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks [3]. It is known that a virtual backbone with smaller cardinality works more efficiently. Without the fault-tolerance consideration, the problem of computing minimum cardinality virtual backbone can be formulated as a minimum connected dominating set problem [1], which is a well-known NP-hard problem [2]. To improve the fault tolerance of a connected dominating set C in homogenous wireless networks, C needs to exhibit two additional properties [4]:

  • k-connectivity: C has to be k-vertex-connected so that the...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville Street, 27707, Durham, NC, USA

    Donghyun Kim

  2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Wei Wang

  3. College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China

    Weili Wu

  4. Department of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Weili Wu

  5. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

    Weili Wu

  6. Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville Street, 27707, Durham, NC, USA

    Alade O. Tokuta

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    Ming-Yang Kao

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Kim, D., Wang, W., Wu, W., Tokuta, A.O. (2016). Fault-Tolerant Connected Dominating Set. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_622

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