Mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend it against attacks on either its vertices or its edges. Various models for this problem have been proposed. In this survey we describe a number of these models with particular attention to the case when the attack sequence is infinitely long and the guards must induce some particular configuration before each attack, such as a dominating set or a vertex cover. Results from the literature concerning the number of guards needed to successfully defend a graph in each of these problems are surveyed.

A perfect Roman dominating function on a graph G is a function f : V (G) ? {0,1,2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u with f(u) = 0 is adjacent to exactly one vertex v for which f(v) = 2. The weight of a perfect Roman dominating function f is the sum of the weights of the vertices. The perfect Roman domination number of G, denoted ?pR(G), is the minimum weight of a perfect Roman dominating function in G. We show that if G is a cubic graph on n vertices, then ?pR(G) ? 3/4n, and this bound is best possible. Further, we show that if G is a k-regular graph on n vertices with k at least 4, then ?pR(G) ? (k2+k+3/k2+3k+1)n.