概要:Let G be a graph and L be a nonnegative integer. We study the
problem of finding a smallest set W of nodes such that for all edges e,
at least one of the two endpoints of e is reachable from some node in W
by using at most L edges. This problem generalizes the well-known
vertex-cover problem (with L=0) and has applications in link-monitoring
in IP networks.
We present a fast heuristic for this problem and show it works well for
scale-free and small-world networks. An interesting result shows that
the size of an optimal solution decreases exponentially when L
increases.