Power domination in generalized undirected de Bruijn graphs and Kautz graphs

Abstract

To monitor an electric power system by placing as few phase measurement units (PMUs) as possible is closely related to the famous vertex cover problem and domination problem in graph theory. A set P is a power dominating set (PDS) of a graph G = (V, E), if every vertex and every edge in the system is observed following the observation rules of power system monitoring. The minimum cardinality of a PDS of a graph G is the power domination number γp(G). In this paper, we determine the upper bounds of power domination number of generalized undirected de Bruijn graphs and generalized undirected Kautz graphs.