Component Fault Diagnosability of Hierarchical Cubic Networks

The fault diagnosability of a network indicates the self-diagnosis ability of the network, thus it is an important measure of robustness of the network. As a neoteric feature for measuring fault diagnosability, the r -component diagnosability ct r (G) of a network G imposes the restriction that the number of components is at least r in the remaining network of G by deleting faulty set X , which enhances the diagnosability of G . In this article, we establish the r -component diagnosability for n -dimensional hierarchical cubic network HCN n , and we show that, under both PMC model and MM* model, the r -component diagnosability of HCN n is rn -½( r -1) r +1 for n ≥ 2 and 1≤ r≤ n-1 . Moreover, we introduce the concepts of 0-PMC subgraph and 0-MM* subgraph of HCN n . Then, we make use of 0-PMC subgraph and 0-MM* subgraph of HCN n to design two algorithms under PMC model and MM* model, respectively, which are practical and efficient for component fault diagnosis of HCN n . Besides, we compare the r -component diagnosability of HCN n with the extra conditional diagnosability, diagnosability, good-neighbor diagnosability, pessimistic diagnosability, and conditional diagnosability, and we verify that the r -component diagnosability of HCN n is higher than the other types of diagnosability.