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In order to meet ever-increasing demands for reliable parallel and distributed systems, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability and fault tolerance of their underlying interconnection networks. Such an interconnection network is usually modeled as a connected graph G, where the vertex set and edge set represent the processors and links between processors in the network, respectively. In this paper, we combine Fàbrega’s idea about h-extra edge-connectivity and Sampathkumar’s concept about r-component edge-connectivity to introduce a more refined parameter for characterizing fault tolerance of interconnection networks, named as h-extra r-component edge-connectivity. Given a connected graph G, for two integers \(h\ge 1\) and \(r\ge 2\), the h-extra r-component edge-connectivity of G, denoted as \(c\lambda _{r}^{h}(G)\), is the minimum cardinality among all edge subsets \(F\subset E(G)\), if any, such that \(G-F\) has at least r components, and each component has at least h vertices. As an enhancement on hypercube, the n-dimensional augmented cube \(\text {AQ}_n\), introduced by Choudum and Sunitha in 2002, reserves several excellent topological properties. As \(|V(\text {AQ}_n)|=2^n\), the h-extra three-component edge-connectivity of \(\text {AQ}_n\) is well-defined for each integer h with \(1\le h\le \lfloor 2^n/3 \rfloor\). In this paper, a generalization of Xu et al.’s conclusion is obtained that finds an upper bound for the exact value of general h-extra three-component edge-connectivity of \(\text {AQ}_n\) and shows that it is sharp for \(1\le h\le 2^{\left\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \right\rfloor -1 }\) and \(h=2^c\) where \(1\le c\le n-2\). Let \(h=\sum _{i=0}^{s} 2^{t_{i}}\) be a positive integer with \(t_0> t_1> \cdots > t_s\ge 0\). Let \(\delta =0\) if h is even and \(\delta =1\) if h is odd. Specifically, \(c\lambda _3^h(\text {AQ}_n)=(4n-4)h-2\sum _{i=0}^{s}(2 t_{i}-1) 2^{t_{i}}-2\sum _{i=0}^{s} 4i \cdot 2^{t_{i}}-\delta\) for \(n\ge 4, h\le 2^{\left\lfloor \frac{n}{2} \right\rfloor -1 }\), and \(c\lambda _3^{2^c}(\text {AQ}_n)=(2n-2c-1)2^{c+1}\) for \(n\ge 4\) and \(1\le c\le n-2\).





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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12101528 and 12371356), the graduate student scientific research innovation projects in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant No. XJ2023G082), the Science and Technology Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant No. 2020D01C069), the Tianchi Ph.D Program (Grant No. tcbs201905), the Doctoral Startup Foundation of Xinjiang University (Grant No. 62031224736), and the Major Research Project of Shanxi Province (No. 202202020101006).
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Zhang, Y., Zhang, M. & Yang, W. Reliability analysis of the augmented cubes in terms of the h-extra r-component edge-connectivity. J Supercomput 80, 11704–11718 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05845-5
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