• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.89-97
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• 2024

The problem of the spokes puzzle(SP), which connects the spokes(edges) required by the wheel axis (hub, vertex) without intersection to form a network in which all the hubs are connected, can be said to be a wasteland of research. For this problem, there is no algorithm that presents a brute-force search or branch-and-bound method that takes exponential time. This paper proposes an algorithm to plot a lattice graph with cross-diagonal lines of m×n for a given SP and to pruning(delete) the surplus edges(spokes). The proposed algorithm is a simple way to select an edge of a hub whose number of edges matches the hub requirement and delete the edge crossing it. If there is no hub with an edge that meets the hub requirement, a strategy was adopted to preferentially delete(pruning) the edge of the hub with the maximum amount of spare. As a result of applying the proposed algorithm to 20 benchmarking experimental data, it was shown that a solution that minimizes the number of trials and errors can be obtained for all problems.