Nature Research, Scientific Reports, 1(3), 2013
DOI: 10.1038/srep01736
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We study the scaling behavior of the size of minimum dominating set (MDS) in scale-free networks, with respect to network size N and power-law exponent γ, while keeping the average degree fixed. We study ensembles generated by three different network construction methods, and we use a greedy algorithm to approximate the MDS. With a structural cutoff imposed on the maximal degree we find linear scaling of the MDS size with respect to N in all three network classes. Without any cutoff (kmax = N - 1) two of the network classes display a transition at γ ≈ 1.9, with linear scaling above, and vanishingly weak dependence below, but in the third network class we find linear scaling irrespective of γ. We find that the partial MDS, which dominates a given z < 1 fraction of nodes, displays essentially the same scaling behavior as the MDS.