Minimum Dominating Sets in Scale-Free Network Ensembles

We study the scaling behavior of the size of minimum dominating set (MDS) in scale-free networks, with respect to network size N and power-law exponent c, while keeping the average degree fixed. We study ensembles generated by three different network construction methods, and we use a greedy algorithm to approximate theMDS.With a structural cutoff imposed on themaximal degree kmax~ ffiffiffiffi N p we find linear scaling of theMDS size with respect to N in all three network classes. Without any cutoff (kmax5N – 1) two of the network classes display a transition at c < 1.9, with linear scaling above, and vanishingly weak dependence below, but in the third network class we find linear scaling irrespective of c. We find that the partial MDS, which dominates a given z, 1 fraction of nodes, displays essentially the same scaling behavior as the MDS.