In an efficient design of routing protocols in ad hoc wireless networks, the connected dominating set (CDS) is widely used as a virtual backbone. To construct the CDS with its size as minimum, many heuristic, meta-heuristic, greedy, approximation and distributed algorithmic approaches have been proposed in the recent years. These approaches mostly concentrated on deriving independent set and th...

For any integer $kgeq 1$ and any graph $G=(V,E)$ with minimum degree at least $k-1$‎, ‎we define a‎ ‎function $f:Vrightarrow {0,1,2}$ as a Roman $k$-tuple dominating‎ ‎function on $G$ if for any vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ there exist at least‎ ‎$k$ and for any vertex $v$ with $f(v)neq 0$ at least $k-1$ vertices in its neighborhood with $f(w)=2$‎. ‎The minimum weight of a Roman $k$-tuple dominatin...

For a graph G = (V, E), a set S ⊆ V (G) is a total dominating set if it is dominating and both 〈S〉 has no isolated vertices. The cardinality of a minimum total dominating set in G is the total domination number. A set S ⊆ V (G) is a total restrained dominating set if it is total dominating and 〈V (G) − S〉 has no isolated vertices. The cardinality of a minimum total restrained dominating set in ...

For a graph G = (V,E), a set D ⊆ V (G) is a total restrained dominating set if it is a dominating set and both 〈D〉 and 〈V (G)−D〉 do not have isolated vertices. The cardinality of a minimum total restrained dominating set in G is the total restrained domination number. A set D ⊆ V (G) is a restrained dominating set if it is a dominating set and 〈V (G) − D〉 does not contain an isolated vertex. Th...

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a simple graph of order $n$. The total dominating set is a subset $D$ of $V$ that every vertex of $V$ is adjacent to some vertices of $D$. The total domination number of $G$ is equal to minimum cardinality of total dominating set in $G$ and denoted by $gamma_t(G)$. The total domination polynomial of $G$ is the polynomial $D_t(G,x)=sum d_t(G,i)$, where $d_t(G,i)$ is the numbe...

Domination is a rapidly developing area of research in graph theory, and its various applications to ad hoc networks, distributed computing, social networks and web graphs partly explain the increased interest. This thesis focuses on domination theory, and the main aim of the study is to apply a probabilistic approach to obtain new upper bounds for various domination parameters. Chapters 2 and ...

‎It is a well-known fact that finding a minimum dominating set and consequently the domination number of a general graph is an NP-complete problem‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we first model it as a nonlinear binary optimization problem and then extract two closely related semidefinite relaxations‎. ‎For each of these relaxations‎, ‎different rounding algorithm is exp...

A {em Roman dominating function} on a graph $G$ is a function $f:V(G)rightarrow {0,1,2}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $u$ for which $f(u)=0$ is adjacent to at least one vertex $v$ for which $f(v)=2$. A {em total Roman dominating function} is a Roman dominating function with the additional property that the subgraph of $G$ induced by the set of all vertices of positive weight has n...

A total dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset D ⊆ V such that every vertex in V is adjacent to some vertex in D. Finding a total dominating set of minimum size is NPcomplete on planar graphs and W [2]-complete on general graphs when parameterized by the solution size. By the meta-theorem of Bodlaender et al. [FOCS 2009], it follows that there exists a linear kernel for Total Dominatin...

a dominating set $d subseteq v$ of a graph $g = (v,e)$ is said to be a connected cototal dominating set if $langle d rangle$ is connected and $langle v-d rangle neq phi$, contains no isolated vertices. a connected cototal dominating set is said to be minimal if no proper subset of $d$ is connected cototal dominating set. the connected cototal domination number $gamma_{ccl}(g)$ of $g$ is the min...