The strong local diagnosability of a hypercube network with missing edges (Q1632895)

Summary: In the research on the reliability of a connection network, diagnosability is an important problem that should be considered. In this article, a new concept regarding diagnosability, called strong local diagnosability (SLD), which describes the local status of the strong diagnosability (SD) of a system, is presented. In addition, a few important results related to the SLD of a node of a system are presented. Based on these results, we conclude that in a hypercube network of \(n\) dimensions, denoted by \(Q_n\), the SLD of a node is equal to its degree when \(n \geqslant 4\). Moreover, we explore the SLD of a node of an incomplete hypercube network. We determine that the SLD of a node is equal to its remaining degree (RD) in an incomplete hypercube network, which is true provided that the number of faulty edges in this hypercube network does not exceed \((n-3)\). Finally, we discuss the SLD of a node for an incomplete hypercube network and obtain the following results: if the minimum RD of nodes in an incomplete hypercube network of \(n\)-dimensions is greater than \(3\), then the SLD of any node is still equal to its RD provided that the number of faulty edges does not exceed \(7(n-3)-1\). If the RD of each node is greater than \(4\), then the SLD of each node is also equal to its RD, no matter how many faulty edges exist in \(Q_n\).