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Understanding Hidden Knowledge in Generic Graphs

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平皓弟 (Haodi Ping)
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Yongcai Wang *
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Zhang, Yu
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李德英 (Deying Li)
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Lihua Xie
DOI:10.1109/TNET.2024.3364177delete
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When the edge between two nodes is not measured, is there any hint to know the edge property, and will the inferred edge property be useful? To answer these questions, this paper uniformly defines the properties of unmeasurable edges in generic graphs. For an unmeasurable edge (i, j), it is called rangeable if its length is unique in any realization of the graph, rigid if the number of its possible lengths is finite, and flexible if it has infinite possible lengths. The rangeable edge can provide deterministic hidden knowledge as if the edge is measured. A condition for an unmeasured edge being rangeable in 2D space is firstly proposed, based on which a centralized identification algorithm (DRE) is designed. However, the centralized rangeable edge identification has the overhead of global information collection. Therefore distributed condition and algorithm to identify rangeable edges are further investigated. We prove that an unmeasurable edge (i, j) is rangeable if there are at least two Disjoint Minimally Rigid Branches (DMRBs) between i and j. The unmeasurable edge (i, j) is rigid and flexible when the number of DMRB is one and zero, respectively. A distributed Branching and Blacklisting (BB) algorithm is proposed to find DMRBs, so that rangeable edges are identified distributively. Then, the applications of rangeable, rigid, and flexible edges are discussed. Experimental evaluations show that the centralized and distributed algorithms can identify a rich set of unmeasurable but rangeable edges in distance graphs, even more than the number of directly measured edges. Moreover, BB has a similar identification performance as the centralized DRE algorithm and outperforms existing distributed unmeasurable edge inference algorithms significantly.
Keywords:
Generic graph
unmeasurable edge
rangeable
rigid
node localizability

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IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking
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Renmin University of China
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Nanyang Technological University
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Beijing University of Technology
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