(n,k)-星圖是星型網路的擴展化版本並且是超立方體的一個非常有吸引力的替代圖形。在k = n - 1的情況下(n,k)-星圖相似於星型路。它具有非常多的優異特性，例如：點對稱、分層構造、最大化容錯和簡單的最短路徑路由方法等。圖G上的一組生成樹如果所有的樹的根節點都是點r，並且對於圖中其他的所有不同於r的點v，在任意兩棵樹中從v到r的兩條路徑，除v和r以外的不會有其他相同節點，這樣我們就叫這一組生成樹為一組獨立生成樹。獨立生成樹在網路廣播和安全信息分發等應用領域有很多利用價值。在本篇碩士論文中，我們將給出一個遞回式對的演算法，其可以在(n, k)-星圖上構造出n -1棵獨立生成樹。

The (n,k)-star graphs is a generalized version of the star network and an attractive alternative to the hypercube. It is isomorphic to the n-star graph if k = n - 1. It preserves many attractive properties of an star network such as vertex symmetry, hierarchical structure, maximal fault tolerance, and simple shortest routing. A set of spanning trees in a graph G is called independent spanning trees (ISTs for short) if they are rooted at the same vertex, say r, and for each vertex v(v!= r) in G, the two paths from v to r in any two trees share no common vertex expect for v and r. ISTs have a number of advantages for broadcasting and secure message distribution in interconnection network eld. In this thesis, we present a recursively approach to construct n -1 ISTs on (n,k)-star graphs.

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