A new graph radio k-coloring algorithm

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth in the use of wireless communication services and the corresponding scarcity and the high cost of radio spectrum bandwidth, Channel assignment problem (CAP) is becoming highly important. Radio [Formula: see text]-coloring of graphs is a variation of CAP. For a positive integer [Formula: see text], a radio [Formula: see text]-coloring of a simple connected graph [Formula: see text] is a mapping [Formula: see text] from the vertex set [Formula: see text] to the set [Formula: see text] of non-negative integers such that [Formula: see text] for each pair of distinct vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the distance between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]. The span of a radio [Formula: see text]-coloring [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is defined as [Formula: see text] and the radio[Formula: see text]-chromatic number of [Formula: see text], denoted by [Formula: see text], is [Formula: see text] where the minimum is taken over all radio [Formula: see text]-coloring of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we present two radio [Formula: see text]-coloring algorithms for general graphs which will produce radio [Formula: see text]-colorings with their spans. For an [Formula: see text]-vertex simple connected graph the time complexity of the both algorithm is of [Formula: see text]. Implementing these algorithms we get the exact value of [Formula: see text] for several graphs (for example, [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], some circulant graph etc.) and many values of [Formula: see text], especially for [Formula: see text].