Fault-free Hamiltonian cycle including given edges in folded hypercubes with faulty edges

Abstract

The folded hypercube is an important interconnection network for multiprocessor systems. Let [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] denote an [Formula: see text]-dimensional folded hypercube. For a given fault-free edge set [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and a faulty edge set [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], in this paper we prove that [Formula: see text] contains a fault-free Hamiltonian cycle including each edge of [Formula: see text] if and only if the subgraph induced by [Formula: see text] is linear forest. Furthermore, we give the definitions of the distance among three vertex-disjoint edges and the distance between a vertex and a vertex set. For three vertex-disjoint edges [Formula: see text], the distance among them is denoted by [Formula: see text]. For a vertex [Formula: see text] and a vertex set [Formula: see text], the distance between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is denoted by [Formula: see text].