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Edge-fault-tolerant strong Menger edge connectivity of bubble-sort star graphs

Combinatorics 2020-01-06 v2

Abstract

The connectivity and edge connectivity of interconnection network determine the fault tolerance of the network. An interconnection network is usually viewed as a connected graph, where vertex corresponds processor and edge corresponds link between two distinct processors. Given a connected graph GG with vertex set V(G)V(G) and edge set E(G)E(G), if for any two distinct vertices u,vV(G)u,v\in V(G), there exist min{dG(u),dG(v)}\min\{d_G(u),d_G(v)\} edge-disjoint paths between uu and vv, then GG is strongly Menger edge connected. Let mm be an integer with m1m\geq1. If GFeG-F_e remains strongly Menger edge connected for any FeE(G)F_e\subseteq E(G) with Fem|F_e|\leq m, then GG is mm-edge-fault-tolerant strongly Menger edge connected. If GFeG-F_e is strongly Menger edge connected for any FeE(G)F_e\subseteq E(G) with Fem|F_e|\leq m and δ(GFe)2\delta(G-F_e)\geq2, then GG is mm-conditional edge-fault-tolerant strongly Menger edge connected. In this paper, we consider the nn-dimensional bubble-sort star graph BSnBS_n. We show that BSnBS_n is (2n5)(2n-5)-edge-fault-tolerant strongly Menger edge connected for n3n\geq3 and (6n17)(6n-17)-conditional edge-fault-tolerant strongly Menger edge connected for n4n\geq4. Moreover, we give some examples to show that our results are optimal.

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@article{arxiv.1909.04081,
  title  = {Edge-fault-tolerant strong Menger edge connectivity of bubble-sort star graphs},
  author = {Jia Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04081},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 3 figures