Mahmood Shabankhah
Abstract
The analysis of vulnerability in networks generally involves some questions about how the underlying graph is connected. One is naturally interested in studying the types of disruption in the network that maybe caused by failures of certain links or nodes. In terms of a graph, the concept of connectedness ...
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The analysis of vulnerability in networks generally involves some questions about how the underlying graph is connected. One is naturally interested in studying the types of disruption in the network that maybe caused by failures of certain links or nodes. In terms of a graph, the concept of connectedness is used in dierent forms to study many of the measures of vulnerability. When certain vertices or edges of a connected graph are deleted, one wants to know whether the remaining graph is still connected, and if so, what its vertex - or edge - connectivity is. If on the other hand, the graph is disconnected, the determination of the number of its components or their orders is useful. Our purpose here is to describe and analyze the current status of the vulnerability measures, identify its more interesting variants, and suggesta most suitable measure of vulnerability.
Mahmood Shabankhah
Abstract
Many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including toughness, binding number, rate of disruption, neighbor-connectivity, integrity, mean integrity, edgeconnectivity vector, l-connectivity and tenacity. In this paper we discuss Integrity ...
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Many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including toughness, binding number, rate of disruption, neighbor-connectivity, integrity, mean integrity, edgeconnectivity vector, l-connectivity and tenacity. In this paper we discuss Integrity and its properties in vulnerability calculation. The integrity of a graph G, I(G), is defined to be min(| S | +m(G − S)) where S ⊂ V (G) and m(G − S) is the maximum order of the components of G − S. Similarly the edge-integrity of G is I′(G) := min(| S | +m(G − S)) where now S ⊆ E(G). Here and through the remaining sections, by an I-set (with respect to some prescribed graph G) we will mean a set S ⊂ V (G) for which I(G) =| S | +m(G − S). We define an I′-set similarly. In this paper we show a lower bound on the edgeintegrity of graphs and present an algorithm for its computation.