https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00249-y
Dynamics of congestion transition triggered by multiple walkers on complex networks
Soft Matter Lab, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics and Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
Corresponding author: a cxwu@xmu.edu.cn
Received:
20
January
2006
Revised:
27
April
2006
Published online:
22
June
2006
The congestion transition triggered by multiple walkers walking along the shortest path on complex networks is numerically investigated. These networks are composed of nodes that have a finite capacity in analogy to the buffer memory of a computer. It is found that a transition from free-flow phase to congestion phase occurs at a critical walker density fc, which varies for complex networks with different topological structures. The dynamic pictures of congestion for networks with different topological structures show that congestion on scale-free networks is a percolation process of congestion clusters, while the dynamics of congestion transition on non-scale-free networks is mainly a process of nucleation.
PACS: 89.75.-k – Complex systems / 87.23.Ge – Dynamics of social systems / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
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