Let G = (V, E) be an undirected graph with a set V of nodes and a set E of edges, |V | = n. A node v is said to distance-k dominate a node w if w is reachable from v by a path consisting of at most k edges. A set D ⊆ V is said a distance-k dominating set if every node can be distance-k dominated by some v ∈ D. The size of a minimum distance-k dominating set, denoted by γk(G), is called the dist...

We propose a memory efficient self-stabilizing protocol building k-independent dominating sets. A k-independent dominating set is a k-independent set and a kdominating set. A set of nodes, I, is k-independent if the distance between any pair of nodes in I is at least k + 1. A set of nodes, D, is a k-dominating if every node is within distance k of a node of D. Our algorithm, named SID, is silen...

We propose a memory efficient self-stabilizing protocol building k-independent dominating sets. A k-independent dominating set is a k-independent set and a kdominating set. A set of nodes, I, is k-independent if the distance between any pair of nodes in I is at least k + 1. A set of nodes, D, is a k-dominating if every node is within distance k of a node of D. Our algorithm, named SID, is silen...

A set D ⊆ V of vertices is said to be a (connected) distance k-dominating set of G if the distance between each vertex u ∈ V − D and D is at most k (and D induces a connected graph in G). The minimum cardinality of a (connected) distance k-dominating set in G is the (connected) distance k-domination number of G, denoted by γk(G) (γ c k (G), respectively). The set D is defined to be a total k-do...

— In this paper, we study the dominating-free set which is defined as follows: k points called servers and n points called clients in the plane are given. For a point p in the plane is said to be dominated by a client c if for every server s, the distance between s and p is greater than the distance between s and c. The dominating-free set is the set of points in the plane which aren't dominate...

For a connected graph G = (V,E), a set D ⊆ V (G) is a dominating set of G if every vertex in V (G)−D has at least one neighbour in D. The distance dG(u, v) between two vertices u and v is the length of a shortest (u− v) path in G. An (u− v) path of length dG(u, v) is called an (u− v)-geodesic. A set X ⊆ V (G) is convex in G if vertices from all (a − b)-geodesics belong to X for any two vertices...

Let G be a graph with no isolated vertex. In this paper, we study a parameter that is squeezed between arguably the two most important domination parameters; namely, the domination number, γ(G), and the total domination number, γt(G). A set S of vertices in a graph G is a semitotal dominating set of G if it is a dominating set of G and every vertex in S is within distance 2 of another vertex of...

We show that the problem k-DOMINATING SET and its several variants including k-CONNECTED DOMINATING SET, k-INDEPENDENT DOMINATING SET, and k-DOMINATING CLIQUE, when parameterized by the solution size k, are W[1]-hard in either multiple-interval graphs or their complements or both. On the other hand, we show that these problems belong to W[1] when restricted to multipleinterval graphs and their ...