• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.31-44
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• 2019

A graph theoretical model called Roman domination in graphs originates from the historical background that any undefended place (with no legions) of the Roman Empire must be protected by a stronger neighbor place (having two legions). It is applicable to military and commercial decision-making problems. A Roman dominating function for a graph G = (V, E) is a function $f:V{\rightarrow}\{0,1,2\}$ such that every vertex v with f(v)=0 has at least a neighbor w in G for which f(w)=2. The Roman domination number of a graph is the minimum weight ${\sum}_{v{\in}V}\;f(v)$ of a Roman dominating function. In order to deal a problem of a Roman domination-type defensive strategy under multiple simultaneous attacks, ${\acute{A}}lvarez$-Ruiz et al. [1] initiated the study of a new parameter related to Roman dominating function, which is called strong Roman domination. ${\acute{A}}lvarez$-Ruiz et al. posed the following problem: Characterize the graphs G with equal strong Roman domination number and Roman domination number. In this paper, we construct a family of trees. We prove that for a tree, its strong Roman dominance number and Roman dominance number are equal if and only if the tree belongs to this family of trees.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.515-523
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• 2019

Consider a graph G of order n and maximum degree ${\Delta}$. Let $f:V(G){\rightarrow}\{0,1,{\cdots},{\lceil}{\frac{{\Delta}}{2}}{\rceil}+1\}$ be a function that labels the vertices of G. Let $B_0=\{v{\in}V(G):f(v)=0\}$. The function f is a strong Roman dominating function for G if every $v{\in}B_0$ has a neighbor w such that $f(w){\geq}1+{\lceil}{\frac{1}{2}}{\mid}N(w){\cap}B_0{\mid}{\rceil}$. In this paper, we study the bounds on strong Roman domination numbers of the Cartesian product $P_m{\square}P_k$ of paths $P_m$ and paths $P_k$. We compute the exact values for the strong Roman domination number of the Cartesian product $P_2{\square}P_k$ and $P_3{\square}P_k$. We also show that the strong Roman domination number of the Cartesian product $P_4{\square}P_k$ is between ${\lceil}{\frac{1}{3}}(8k-{\lfloor}{\frac{k}{8}}{\rfloor}+1){\rceil}$ and ${\lceil}{\frac{8k}{3}}{\rceil}$ for $k{\geq}8$, and that both bounds are sharp bounds.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1114-1122
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for provisioning marginal resources in wired and wireless computer networks which include Internet. In more detail, we propose a mathematical model for the upper bounds of marginal capacity in grid networks, where the resource is designed a priori by normal traffic estimation and marginal resource is prepared for unexpected events such as natural disasters and abrupt flash crowd in public affairs. To be specific, we propose a method to evaluate an upper bound for minimum marginal capacity for an arbitrary grid topology using the concept of a strong Roman domination number. To that purpose, we introduce a graph theory to model and analyze the characteristics of general grid structure networks. After that we propose a new tight upper bound for the strong Roman domination number. Via a numerical example, we show the validity of the proposition.