Distributed Dominating Set Approximations beyond Planar Graphs

Distributed Dominating Set Approximations beyond Planar Graphs

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in distributed computing. While it is well-known that minimum dominating sets cannot be approximated locally on general graphs, over the last years, there has been much progress on computing local approximations on sparse graphs, and in particular planar graphs. In this paper we study distributed an...

Capacitated Dominating Set on Planar Graphs

Capacitated Domination generalizes the classic Dominating Set problem by specifying for each vertex a required demand and an available capacity for covering demand in its closed neighborhood. The objective is to find a minimum-sized set of vertices that can cover all of the graph’s demand without exceeding any of the capacities. In this paper we look specifically at domination with hard-capacit...

Fast Distributed Approximations in Planar Graphs

We give deterministic distributed algorithms that given δ > 0 find in a planar graph G, (1 ± δ)-approximations of a maximum independent set, a maximum matching, and a minimum dominating set. The algorithms run in O(log∗ |G|) rounds. In addition, we prove that no faster deterministic approximation is possible and show that if randomization is allowed it is possible to beat the lower bound for de...

Improved Approximations of Independent Dominating Set in Bounded Degree Graphs

We consider the problem of nding an independent dominating set of minimum cardinality in bounded degree and regular graphs. We rst give an approximation algorithm for at most cubic graphs, that achieves ratio 2, based on greedy and local search techniques. We then propose an heuristic based on an iterative application of the greedy technique on graphs of lower and lower degree. When the graph i...

Parameterized Planar Dominating Set