Fault tolerant graphs, perfect hash functions and disjoint paths

  • Authors:
  • M. Ajtai;N. Alon;J. Bruck;R. Cypher;C. T. Ho;M. Naor;E. Szemeredi

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '92 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Given a graph G on n nodes the authors say that a graph T on n + k nodes is a k-fault tolerant version of G, if one can embed G in any n node induced subgraph of T. Thus T can sustain k faults and still emulate G without any performance degradation. They show that for a wide range of values of n, k and d, for any graph on n nodes with maximum degree d there is a k-fault tolerant graph with maximum degree O(kd). They provide lower bounds as well: there are graphs G with maximum degree d such that any k-fault tolerant version of them has maximum degree at least Omega (d square root k).