A minimal model for congestion phenomena on complex networks

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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2009/08/P08023zbMATH Open1459.90051arXiv0906.3945OpenAlexW2051369938WikidataQ60575081 ScholiaQ60575081MaRDI QIDQ3301104FDOQ3301104


Authors: D. De Martino, Luca Dall'Asta, Ginestra Bianconi, Matteo Marsili Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase and a congested phase, critical points and different scaling behaviors in the system size. It consists of random walkers on a queueing network with one-range repulsion, where particles can be destroyed only if they can move. We focus on the dependence on the topology as well as on the level of traffic control. We are able to obtain transition curves and phase diagrams at analytical level for the ensemble of uncorrelated networks and numerically for single instances. We find that traffic control improves global performance, enlarging the free-flow region in parameter space only in heterogeneous networks. Traffic control introduces non-linear effects and, beyond a critical strength, may trigger the appearance of a congested phase in a discontinuous manner. The model also reproduces the cross-over in the scaling of traffic fluctuations empirically observed in the Internet, and moreover, a conserved version can reproduce qualitatively some stylized facts of traffic in transportation networks.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3945




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