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Game-Theoretic Approach to Self-Stabilizing Distributed Formation of Minimal Multi-Dominating Sets


Abstract:

Dominating set is a subset of nodes called dominators in a graph such that every non-dominator nodes (called dominatee) is adjacent to at least one dominator. This paper ...Show More

Abstract:

Dominating set is a subset of nodes called dominators in a graph such that every non-dominator nodes (called dominatee) is adjacent to at least one dominator. This paper considers a more general multi-dominating problem where each node i , dominator or dominatee, is required to have at least k_i neighboring dominators, and different node can have different k_i value. We first propose a game design toward this problem. This game is self-stabilizing (i.e., it always ends up with a legitimate state regardless of its initial configuration). The obtained result is guaranteed minimal (i.e., it contains no proper subset that is also a multi-dominating set) and Pareto optimal (we cannot increase the payoff of some player without sacrificing the payoff of any other). We then point out challenges when turning the design into a distributed algorithm using guarded commands. We present an algorithm that is proved weakly stabilizing. Simulation results show that the proposed game and algorithm produce smaller dominating sets, k -dominating sets, and multi-dominating sets in various network topologies when compared with prior approaches.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ( Volume: 25, Issue: 12, December 2014)
Page(s): 3201 - 3210
Date of Publication: 16 January 2014

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