Edge-Fault Tolerance of Hypercube-like Networks

The balanced hypercube, $BH_n$, is a variant of hypercube $Q_n$. Zhou et al. [Inform. Sci. 300 (2015) 20-27] proposed an interesting problem that whether there is a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle in $BH_n$ with each vertex incident to at least two fault-free edges. In this paper, we consider this problem and show that each fault-free edge lies on a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle in $BH_n$ after no more than $4n-5$ faulty edges occur if each vertex is incident with at least two fa...

The connectivity is an important parameter to evaluate the robustness of a network. As a generalization, structure connectivity and substructure connectivity of graphs were proposed. For connected graphs $G$ and $H$, the $H$-structure connectivity $\kappa(G; H)$ (resp. $H$-substructure connectivity $\kappa^{s}(G; H)$) of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set of subgraphs $F$ of $G$ that each is isomorphic to $H$ (resp. to a connected subgraph of $H$) so that $G-F$ is discon...

The restricted $h$-connectivity of a graph $G$, denoted by $\kappa^h(G)$, is defined as the minimum cardinality of a set of vertices $F$ in $G$, if exists, whose removal disconnects $G$ and the minimum degree of each component of $G-F$ is at least $h$. In this paper, we study the restricted $h$-connectivity of the balanced hypercube $BH_n$ and determine that $\kappa^1(BH_n)=\kappa^2(BH_n)=4n-4$ for $n\geq2$. We also obtain a sharp upper bound of $\kappa^3(BH_n)$ and $\kappa^4...

Let $G$ be a graph and $T$ a certain connected subgraph of $G$. The $T$-structure connectivity $\kappa(G; T)$ (or resp., $T$-substructure connectivity $\kappa^{s}(G; T)$) of $G$ is the minimum number of a set of subgraphs $\mathcal{F}=\{T_{1}, T_{2}, \ldots, T_{m}\}$ (or resp., $\mathcal{F}=\{T^{'}_{1}, T^{'}_{2}, \ldots, T^{'}_{m}\}$) such that $T_{i}$ is isomorphic to $T$ (or resp., $T^{'}_{i}$ is a connected subgraph of $T$) for every $1\leq i \leq m$, and $\mathcal{F}$'s ...

In this paper we study the problem of how resilient networks are to node faults. Specifically, we investigate the question of how many faults a network can sustain so that it still contains a large (i.e. linear-sized) connected component that still has approximately the same expansion as the original fault-free network. For this we apply a pruning technique which culls away parts of the faulty network which have poor expansion. This technique can be applied to both adversaria...

The $g$-extra edge-connectivity is an important measure for the reliability of interconnection networks. Recently, Yang et al. [Appl. Math. Comput. 320 (2018) 464--473] determined the $3$-extra edge-connectivity of balanced hypercubes $BH_n$ and conjectured that the $g$-extra edge-connectivity of $BH_n$ is $\lambda_g(BH_n)=2(g+1)n-4g+4$ for $2\leq g\leq 2n-1$. In this paper, we confirm their conjecture for $n\geq 6-\dfrac{12}{g+1}$ and $2\leq g\leq 8$, and disprove their conj...

Zhu et al. [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 758 (2019) 1--8] introduced the $h$-edge tolerable diagnosability to measure the fault diagnosis capability of a multiprocessor system with faulty links. This kind of diagnosability is a generalization of the concept of traditional diagnosability. A graph is called a maximally connected graph if its minimum degree equals its vertex connectivity. It is well-known that many irregular networks are maximally connected graphs and the $h$-edge tole...

The hypercube Q_n is the graph whose vertex set is {0,1}^n and where two vertices are adjacent if they differ in exactly one coordinate. For any subgraph H of the cube, let ex(Q_n, H) be the maximum number of edges in a subgraph of Q_n which does not contain a copy of H. We find a wide class of subgraphs H, including all previously known examples, for which ex(Q_n, H) = o(e(Q_n)). In particular, our method gives a unified approach to proving that ex(Q_n, C_{2t}) = o(e(Q_n)) f...

We present a new, novel approach to obtaining a network's connectivity. More specifically, we show that there exists a relationship between a network's graph isoperimetric properties and its conditional connectivity. A network's connectivity is the minimum number of nodes, whose removal will cause the network disconnected. It is a basic and important measure for the network's reliability, hence its overall robustness. Several conditional connectivities have been proposed in t...

The balanced hypercube, $BH_n$, is a variant of hypercube $Q_n$. R.X. Hao et al. $(2014)$ \cite{R.X.Hao} showed that there exists a fault-free Hamiltonian path between any two adjacent vertices in $BH_n$ with $(2n-2)$ faulty edges. D.Q. Cheng et al. $(2015)$ \cite{Dongqincheng2} proved that $BH_n$ is $6$-edge-bipancyclic after $(2n-3)$ faulty edges occur for all $n\ge2$. In this paper, we improve these two results by demonstrating that $BH_n$ is $6$-edge-bipancyclic even when...