TRANSPORT ON COMPLEX NETWORKS: FLOW, JAMMING AND OPTIMIZATION

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DOI10.1142/S0218127407018452zbMATH Open1163.90375arXivphysics/0606166MaRDI QIDQ3511045FDOQ3511045


Authors: Bosiljka Tadić, G. J. Rodgers, Stefan Thurner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 July 2008

Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many transport processes on networks depend crucially on the underlying network geometry, although the exact relationship between the structure of the network and the properties of transport processes remain elusive. In this paper we address this question by using numerical models in which both structure and dynamics are controlled systematically. We consider the traffic of information packets that include driving, searching and queuing. We present the results of extensive simulations on two classes of networks; a correlated cyclic scale-free network and an uncorrelated homogeneous weakly clustered network. By measuring different dynamical variables in the free flow regime we show how the global statistical properties of the transport are related to the temporal fluctuations at individual nodes (the traffic noise) and the links (the traffic flow). We then demonstrate that these two network classes appear as representative topologies for optimal traffic flow in the regimes of low density and high density traffic, respectively. We also determine statistical indicators of the pre-jamming regime on different network geometries and discuss the role of queuing and dynamical betweenness for the traffic congestion. The transition to the jammed traffic regime at a critical posting rate on different network topologies is studied as a phase transition with an appropriate order parameter. We also address several open theoretical problems related to the network dynamics.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0606166




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