Cluttered orderings for the complete bipartite graph

  • Authors:
  • Meinard Müller;Tomoko Adachi;Masakazu Jimbo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bonn, Department of Computer Science, Bonn, Germany;Toho University, Department of Information Sciences, Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan;Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information Science, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

To minimize the access cost in large disk arrays (RAID) Cohen, Colbourn, and Froncek introduced and investigated in a series of papers the concept of (d, f)-cluttered orderings of various set systems, d, f ∈ N. In case of a graph this amounts to an ordering of the edge set such that the number of points contained in any d consecutive edges is bounded by the number f. For the complete graph, Cohen et al. gave some optimal solution for small parameters d and introduced some general construction principle based on wrapped Δ-labellings. In this paper, we investigate cluttered orderings for the complete bipartite graph. We adapt the concept of a wrapped Δ-labelling to the bipartite case and introduce the notion of a (d, f)-movement for subgraphs. From this we get a general existence theorem for cluttered orderings. The main result of this paper is the explicit construction of several infinite families of wrapped Δ-labellings leading to cluttered orderings for the corresponding bipartite graphs.