We study weighted bipartite edge coloring problem, which is a generalization of two classical problems: bin packing and edge coloring. This problem has been inspired from the study of Clos networks in multirate switching environment in communication networks. In weighted bipartite edge coloring problem, we are given an edge-weighted bipartite multigraph G = (V,E) with weights w : E → [0, 1]. Th...

The game domination number is a graph invariant that arises from a game, which is related to graph domination in a similar way as the game chromatic number is related to graph coloring. In this paper we show that verifying whether the game domination number of a graph is bounded by a given integer is PSPACEcomplete. This contrasts the situation of the game coloring problem whose complexity is s...

of the following general problem on vertex colorings of graphs. Suppose that some vertices of a graph G are assigned to some colors. Can this ‘precoloring’ be extended to a proper coloring of G with at most k colors (for some given k)? This question was motivated by practical problems in scheduling and VLSI theory. Here we investigate its complexity status for interval graphs and for graphs wit...

The degree-constrained subgraphs decomposition problem, such as an f-coloring, an f-factorization, and a [ g, f ]-factorization, is to decompose a given graph G=(V, E) to edge-disjoint subgraphs degree-constrained by integer-valued functions f and g on V. In this paper we show that the problem can be simply reduced to the edge-coloring problem in polynomial-time. That is, for any positive integ...

The problem of vertex coloring in random graphs is studied using methods of statistical physics and probability. Our analytical results are compared to those obtained by exact enumeration and Monte Carlo simulations. We critically discuss the merits and shortcomings of the various methods, and interpret the results obtained. We present an exact analytical expression for the two-coloring problem...

A homomorphism from a graph G to a graph H is a vertex mapping f : VG → VH such that f(u) and f(v) form an edge in H whenever u and v form an edge in G. The H-Coloring problem is to test if a graph G allows a homomorphism to a given graph H. A well-known result of Hell and Nešetřil determines the computational complexity of this problem for any fixed graph H. We study a natural variant of this ...

The problem of coloring a subgraph of any weighted circular-arc graph with a set of k colors is studied in this paper. In such a coloring, two overlapping arcs must receive different colors. Our main result is to derive a 2-approximation algorithm for the NP-hard problem of finding a maximum total weight k-colorable subgraph of any weighted circular-arc graph, and this algorithm runs in O(mloge...

Abstract. In a multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN), each node is able to use multiple non-overlapping frequency channels. Raniwala et al. (Mobile Computing and Communications Review 2004, INFOCOM 2005) propose and study several such architectures in which a computer can have multiple network interface cards. These architectures are modeled as a graph problem named maximum edge q-coloring...

We address the problem of estimating the spectrum required in a wireless network for a given demand and interference pattern. This problem can be abstracted as a generalization of the graph coloring problem, which typically presents additional degree of hardness compared to the standard coloring problem. It is worthwhile to note that the question of estimating the spectrum requirement differs m...

For a given graph G, the square of G, denoted by G2, is a graph with the vertex set V(G) such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the distance of these vertices in G is at most two. A graph G is called squared if there exists some graph H such that G= H2. A function f:V(G) {0,1,2…, k} is called a coloring of G if for every pair of vertices x,yV(G) with d(x,y)=1 we have |f(x)-f(y)|2 an...