Self-spanner graphs

  • Authors:
  • Serafino Cicerone;Gabriele Di Stefano;Dagmar Handke

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartmento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Dipartmento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Fakultät f¨r Mathematik und Informatik, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Special issue: Max-algebra
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We introduce the (k, l)-self-spanners graphs to model non-reliable interconnection networks. Such networks can be informally characterized as follows: if at most l edges have failed, as long as two vertices remain connected, the distance between these vertices in the faulty graph is at most k times the distance in the non-faulty graph. By fixing the values k and l (called stretch factor and fault-tolerance, respectively), we obtain specific new graph classes. We first provide characterizational, structural, and computational results for these classes. Then, we study relationships between the introduced classes and special graphs classes (distance-hereditary graphs, cographs, and chordal graphs), and common network topologies (grids, tori, hypercubes, butterflies, and cube-connected cycles) as well.