10,196 research outputs found

    A Review of Interference Reduction in Wireless Networks Using Graph Coloring Methods

    Full text link
    The interference imposes a significant negative impact on the performance of wireless networks. With the continuous deployment of larger and more sophisticated wireless networks, reducing interference in such networks is quickly being focused upon as a problem in today's world. In this paper we analyze the interference reduction problem from a graph theoretical viewpoint. A graph coloring methods are exploited to model the interference reduction problem. However, additional constraints to graph coloring scenarios that account for various networking conditions result in additional complexity to standard graph coloring. This paper reviews a variety of algorithmic solutions for specific network topologies.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure

    Using Differential Evolution for the Graph Coloring

    Full text link
    Differential evolution was developed for reliable and versatile function optimization. It has also become interesting for other domains because of its ease to use. In this paper, we posed the question of whether differential evolution can also be used by solving of the combinatorial optimization problems, and in particular, for the graph coloring problem. Therefore, a hybrid self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm for graph coloring was proposed that is comparable with the best heuristics for graph coloring today, i.e. Tabucol of Hertz and de Werra and the hybrid evolutionary algorithm of Galinier and Hao. We have focused on the graph 3-coloring. Therefore, the evolutionary algorithm with method SAW of Eiben et al., which achieved excellent results for this kind of graphs, was also incorporated into this study. The extensive experiments show that the differential evolution could become a competitive tool for the solving of graph coloring problem in the future

    Clique-Relaxed Graph Coloring

    Get PDF
    We define a generalization of the chromatic number of a graph G called the k-clique-relaxed chromatic number, denoted χ(k)(G). We prove bounds on χ(k)(G) for all graphs G, including corollaries for outerplanar and planar graphs. We also define the k-clique-relaxed game chromatic number, χg(k)(G), of a graph G. We prove χg(2)(G)≤ 4 for all outerplanar graphs G, and give an example of an outerplanar graph H with χg(2)(H) ≥ 3. Finally, we prove that if H is a member of a particular subclass of outerplanar graphs, then χg(2)(H) ≤ 3

    Dynamic Algorithms for Graph Coloring

    Get PDF
    We design fast dynamic algorithms for proper vertex and edge colorings in a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. In the static setting, there are simple linear time algorithms for (Δ+1)(\Delta+1)- vertex coloring and (2Δ1)(2\Delta-1)-edge coloring in a graph with maximum degree Δ\Delta. It is natural to ask if we can efficiently maintain such colorings in the dynamic setting as well. We get the following three results. (1) We present a randomized algorithm which maintains a (Δ+1)(\Delta+1)-vertex coloring with O(logΔ)O(\log \Delta) expected amortized update time. (2) We present a deterministic algorithm which maintains a (1+o(1))Δ(1+o(1))\Delta-vertex coloring with O(polylogΔ)O(\text{poly} \log \Delta) amortized update time. (3) We present a simple, deterministic algorithm which maintains a (2Δ1)(2\Delta-1)-edge coloring with O(logΔ)O(\log \Delta) worst-case update time. This improves the recent O(Δ)O(\Delta)-edge coloring algorithm with O~(Δ)\tilde{O}(\sqrt{\Delta}) worst-case update time by Barenboim and Maimon.Comment: To appear in SODA 201

    Graph Coloring

    Get PDF
    Tato práce se zabývá barvením grafů, což je přiřazování barev jednotlivým vrcholům grafu tak, aby žádné dva vrcholy spojené hranou neměly stejnou barvu. Tento problém je velmi výpočetně náročný, protože je NP-úplný. Zároveň je velmi důležitý, protože má řadu praktických aplikací. Zde jsou popsány některé heuristické algoritmy, které se tento problém snaží řešit pomocí postupného zlepšování počátečního řešení při zadaném počtu barev. Tři algoritmy byly implementovány a poté otestovány na různých grafech a porovnány vzhledem k různým kritériím.This thesis is about graph coloring, which is assigning colors to vertices of a graph such that no two vertices, which are linked with an edge, have the same color. This problem is very computational hard, because it's NP-complete. It's also very important, because it has many practical applications. Here are described some of the heuristic algorithms, which try to solve this problem by iteratively improving the initial solution with given number of colors. Three of them have been implemented, tested on different graphs and compared considering several criteria.

    Tverberg's theorem and graph coloring

    Full text link
    The topological Tverberg theorem has been generalized in several directions by setting extra restrictions on the Tverberg partitions. Restricted Tverberg partitions, defined by the idea that certain points cannot be in the same part, are encoded with graphs. When two points are adjacent in the graph, they are not in the same part. If the restrictions are too harsh, then the topological Tverberg theorem fails. The colored Tverberg theorem corresponds to graphs constructed as disjoint unions of small complete graphs. Hell studied the case of paths and cycles. In graph theory these partitions are usually viewed as graph colorings. As explored by Aharoni, Haxell, Meshulam and others there are fundamental connections between several notions of graph colorings and topological combinatorics. For ordinary graph colorings it is enough to require that the number of colors q satisfy q>Delta, where Delta is the maximal degree of the graph. It was proven by the first author using equivariant topology that if q>\Delta^2 then the topological Tverberg theorem still works. It is conjectured that q>K\Delta is also enough for some constant K, and in this paper we prove a fixed-parameter version of that conjecture. The required topological connectivity results are proven with shellability, which also strengthens some previous partial results where the topological connectivity was proven with the nerve lemma.Comment: To appear in Discrete and Computational Geometry, 13 pages, 1 figure. Updated languag

    Channel assignment in cellular radio

    Get PDF
    Some heuristic channel-assignment algorithms for cellular systems are described. These algorithms have yielded optimal, or near-optimal assignments, in many cases. The channel-assignment problem can be viewed as a generalized graph-coloring problem, and these algorithms have been developed, in part, by suitably adapting some of the ideas previously introduced in heuristic graph-coloring algorithms. The channel-assignment problem is formulated as a minimum-span problem, i.e. a problem wherein the requirement is to find the minimum bandwidth necessary to satisfy a given demand. Examples are presented, and algorithm performance results are discussed
    corecore